Music of the Week
Herbert Hancock is an American jazz musician from Chicago who blends jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles into beautiful songs. He’s been active since the early 1960s, which speaks to his longevity. A few of my favorite songs include Cateloupe Island, Watermelon Man, Chameleon, and Rockit.
Quotes of the Week
In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity because if they don’t have that, the two other qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you. – Warren Buffett
Articles of the Week
“The stellar performance of the brand throughout its 183-year history is largely credited to its drive for strategic consistency, combining excellent creativity with craftsmanship as well as an unrelenting focus on the long-term against short-term benefits.” Hermès – The Strategy Insights Behind The Iconic Luxury Brand
“Our business is about creating desire,” he says. “It can be fickle because desire is fickle, but we try to have creativity to suspend the momentum.” Inside Hermès: Luxury’s Secret Empire
“We believe, like most of the Protestants in France, in craftsmanship. We believe in the long term, and we don’t like to be in debt.” Lunch with the FT: Axel Dumas
Book of the Week
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates is his take on what must be done to stop the planet’s slide into environmental chaos. The book explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions while going into detail about how we can achieve this goal. I appreciated the clear picture painted by Gates of the challenges we face. The book describes how current technology is addressing the climate issues we face. Gates also dives into how we can make current technology more effective and where we need technology breakthroughs. I loved how the book gave us a plan to achieve the goal of zero emissions. Government policies are one piece of the puzzle. The other piece of the net-zero emissions puzzle is what technology we need, along with what we all can do to achieve this goal. Net-zero emissions will not be easy, but they can be achieved if we collectively focus on achieving this goal. Other energy and climate-related books worth checking out include Superpower: One Man’s Quest to Transform American Energy, The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future, The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World, Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030, Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties, and Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy.
Podcasts of the Week
The GaryVee Audio Experience was on tap this week for podcasts. Gary tells it like it is when it comes to entrepreneurship. I appreciate his authenticity. He does not sugarcoat anything. One of his podcasts I enjoyed this week was with fellow entrepreneur Tim Ferriss.
Tim Ferriss | Rituals, Reinventing Success & the Power of Failure
