Friday's Five ππΌ #116
Happy Friday's Five,
Spent a large chunk of the week focused on new client Zalando and it turns out that the leader of the team we're supporting has been a reader of this newsletter for over a year (Hi Florian!). Serendipity!
What I'm reading
50 ways to be ridiculously generous β and feel ridiculously good. This neat list fits perfectly into this time of the year, or can be a fantastic list of goals for 2020. Which one is your favorite? I've done #20 a numbers of times when traveling and it's one of those greatest feelings to just leave after you paid and smile.
What I'm listening to
The Swedish-German AllBright Foundation is a non-profit that pursues the mission to promote more women and diversity in executive business positions. It focuses on equal career opportunities for men and women and better company results by diverse and modern management teams. This week, Isa and I interviewed Dr. Wiebke Ankersen, the co-CEO of the foundation in Germany to talk about the current state of women representation in management and supervisory boards in some of the largest German companies. You can listen to the episode (in German) here.
What I'm watching
Marriage Story. Believe the hype. This is the best movie of the year. What a performance by Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver! That monologue scene when Johansson's character is at her lawyer's (played by an equally amazing Laura Dern)? Breathtaking.
What I'm thinking about
βThe dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life: a diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity, of forgetting who will be there when our armored personalities run into the inevitable natural disasters and vulnerabilities found in even the most average existence.
But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self; the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.β β David Whyte
What else?!
Free Ticket Alert! I got two tickets for a screening of the original theatre play of Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge fame) in Berlin on December 29, 2019 but I will be out of town. As a pre-Christmas present, I'm gifting the two tickets to subscribers of this newsletter who plan on doing something nice in return :)
Here's to friendship!
Thanks for reading, have a great week!
David
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