Newsletter
Every Friday, I send a short email called the Friday Five—a quick hit of ideas worth your time. Each issue includes a curated mix of insights from books, business, habits, music, and more.
You’ll get:
- 🎵 One song I’ve been spinning
- 💬 One quote or idea that stuck with me
- 📰 One article I’m thinking about
- 📚 One book I read or revisited
- 🎧 One podcast from the week
It’s simple, free, and always timeless.
Lastest Newsletters
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Friday Five – Everything has a beginning and an end, Taking things away, Shortness of life
Quotes of the Week A parent should do anything, but not everything. – Plutarch In this life, everything has a beginning and an end. – Rafael Nadal Music of the Week Jon Batiste is an “American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, composer, and television personality.” Batiste has won multiple Grammy Awards including Album of the Year. He…
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Friday Five – Persist and resist, Pause and reflect, Art of living is resilience, Prepare for the storm
Quotes of the Week If anyone would take two words to heart and take pains to govern and watch over themselves by them, they will live an impeccable and immensely tranquil life. The two words are: persist and resist. – Epictetus Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause…
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Friday Five – Choosing to let things bother you, Mastery is the ultimate status, Finding how far one can go
Quotes of the Week The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. – Epictetus You choose to let things bother you. You can just as…
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Friday Five – Change your mind, The art of living, Encouraging children, The Gift of Failure
Quotes of the Week When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? — John Maynard Keynes The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks. – Marcus Aurelius If my father had not been…
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Friday Five – Wishing your child optimism, The pursuit of alpha, Do the work
Quote of the Week If you are allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism. — Daniel Kahneman There is no formula for success—you just begin and then you continue. I’m often asked how to have a career in stand-up and the answer is confoundingly simple: Do the work. Over…