Friday's Five 🖐🏼 #171
Happy Friday's Five,
And Happy New Year! To wrap up 2020, this week's Friday's Five has a slightly different format. I'll share my list of favorite, books, albums, podcasts, series, movies, and memories. Thank you for following this newsletter in 2020 and for all the encouraging feedback. Looking forward to sharing in 2021.
What I'm reading
My 5 favorite books of the year:
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
What I'm listening to
My 5 favorite albums:
Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open
The Killers - Imploding the Mirage
Kathleen Edwards - Total Freedom
Sea Wolf - Through a Dark Wood
Khruangbin - Mordechai and Con Todo El Mundo
My Spotify playlist with 297 favorite songs of the year. 20 hours and 8 minutes worth of music shared on Instagram daily.
My 5 favorite podcasts or podcast episodes:
What I'm watching
My 5 favorite tv series:
The Flight Attendant
Queen's Gambit
Unorthodox
Love & Anarchy
Unbelievable
My favorite movies:
Marriage Story
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Bad Education
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Nomadland
My 5 favorite documentaries:
Drive to Survive
Taco Chronicles
Miss Americana
I am Greta
Beastie Boys Story
What I'm thinking about
A stunning New Year's Eve dinner experience at Machneyuda in Jerusalem, mountain biking in the countryside outside of Brussels, shenanigans in a T-Rex costume with my nephews during the first lockdown, friends and food in France, a breakthrough in a year-long mental health issue, mountain bike tours to explore Berlin and its surroundings, lots of great conversations thanks to the Role Models Podcast, work with fantastic existing and new clients, my first 7-day water fast, deleted my Facebook account, more time with family than ever before, lots of cooking and discovering new wines, learning about investing, and investing into my apartment interior. I'm lucky and grateful that, all things considered, 2020 was a good and special year.
What else?!
For a few years now Scott Galloway has made some predictions of which many have been right. Here's his 2021 predictions.
Thanks for reading, have a great weekend, and a great 2021.
David
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