HeyJaredFriday's Five ✋
Highlights of the week about what I'm reading, watching, thinking about, and listening to. Every Friday.
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Friday's Five ✋ #465 (opens the original)
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Happy Friday! ☀️Nine years of Friday’s Five. After hundreds of Fridays, it remains something genuinely enjoyed putting together every week. One of the few things kept going consistently for this long. Great to have you here, thank you for following along.What I’m reading 📖Another Irish writer, another beautiful story of two human beings being human. Seascraper follows Thomas Flett, a young shanker scraping shrimp from the Northern English shore each morning, playing guitar in private, and quietl
Friday's Five ✋ #464 (opens the original)
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Happy Friday! ☀️Hola from Madrid, on the way back to Vienna after three intense days with an extended executive team. A team whose default discussion modes weren't serving them, the discomfort of following a structured process that felt the opposite of familiar, and the anxiety that we wouldn't get where we needed to go. Trusting the process and my instincts, the relief came on the evening of the last day. The COO's closing words said it better than I could: "David, you're a pain in the ass. I'v
Friday's Five ✋ #464 (opens the original)
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Happy Friday! ☀️Hello from Basel Airport. Closing off a week in an exhausted mood – exhausted and excited. Two days with a new client in Zurich (more on what the company does in a future edition) and another round in Freiburg with the three founders of an AI company. The work was intense, both teams were fantastic. One offsite ran into the late evening, the other we extended by half a day. Keeping this short so I don't miss my flight.What I’m reading 📖Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection was a binge th
Friday's Five ✋ #463 (opens the original)
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Happy Friday! ☀️Bracing for a busy September. On paper, it looks like the busiest month of the year so far. Week one on the road is done: two days near Biel in Switzerland with the leadership team of an automotive manufacturer, followed by a day with the team of a music festival company in the Rhineland. Two worlds that couldn't be more different, and yet they share surprisingly similar challenges. Broke through on a number of levels with both.What I’m reading 📖This year seems to be a year of Ir
Friday's Five ✋ #462 (opens the original)
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Happy Friday! ☀️Summer is over, judging by the inbound this week. What started as a half-full calendar ended up completely full. Prep calls, pre-calls, first calls, alignment calls, coaching calls, closing calls. Calls, calls, calls.What I’m reading 📖Even having watched the entire Game of Thrones series several times, this week felt like the right moment to go back to the book that started it all. George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones was a pleasant surprise: the series matches the book and the
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