Music of the Week
Preservation Hall Jazz Band is a jazz band founded in New Orleans by tuba player Allan Jaffe in the early 1960s. The band derives its name from Preservation Hall (such a cool venue) in the French Quarter. Band members include Charlie Gabriel, Walter Harris, Ben Jaffe, Ronell Johnson, Branden Lewis, Clint Maedgen, and Kyle Roussel. If you need jazz in your life, check out Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Quotes of the Week
While pessimists write reports, optimists write history. – Shane Parrish
Momentum is everything…Either you’re improving or regressing. – David Heacock
If I wanted to implement something new into my game, I’d see it and try incorporating it immediately. I wasn’t scared of missing, looking bad, or being embarrassed. That’s because I always kept the end result, the long game, in my mind. – Kobe Bryant
Real success comes from making others successful. – Andrew Mellon
Spend and have is better than spend and crave. – Benjamin Franklin
Articles of the Week
“As energy demand continues to skyrocket, any modifications that inhibit our ability to deploy new energy production risk sparking an energy crisis in our country, resulting in drastically higher power bills for American families,” 21 House Republicans oppose cutting clean energy credits to pay for tax
Book of the Week
Describing this book myself would do an injustice to the book description that matches the debauchery of this hilarious book. “A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black mustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs. So enters one of the most memorable characters in recent American fiction. The hero of John Kennedy Toole’s incomparable, Pulitzer Prize-winning comic classic A Confederacy of Dunces is one Ignatius J. Reilly, an obese, self-absorbed, hapless Don Quixote of the French Quarter, whose half-hearted attempts at employment lead to a series of wacky adventures among the lower denizens of New Orleans.” If you need fiction and laughter in your life, read A Confederacy of Dunces. Other New Orleans books to check out include Napoleon: A Concise Biography, Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans, The Last Madam: A Life In The New Orleans Underworld, The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square, Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America’s Destiny, and Pontchartrain Beach: A Family Affair.
Podcasts of the Week
Derek Sivers, Philosopher-Entrepreneur – The Greatest Year of His Life, Dr. Becky Kennedy – Parenting Strategies for Raising Resilient Kids, Plus Word-for-Word Scripts for Repairing Relationships, and The Random Show – 2025 Predictions (AI, Aliens, BTC, and more), New Year’s Resolutions and Strategies, Smart Fitness.
Bonus: Video of the Week
Bonus: New Blog Post
February Reading List: 4 Best Books I Read in February 2025
