Friday's Five ✋ #209
Happy Friday! ☀️
Hello from Schwielowsee outside of Potsdam where I am hosting a vision & strategy offsite with a long-time client. This week I also worked with Cowboy who just launched in the U.S. Congratulations!
What I’m reading 📖
Facebook has been under fire lately about internal research that shows that Instagram has having a devastating impact on the mental wellbeing of children and teenagers. Adrienne LaFrance of The Atlantic calls Facebook ‘The Largest Autocracy on Earth’ and a ‘lie-disseminating instrument of civilizational collapse’. I’m glad I deleted my Facebook account a long time ago (yes I still have an Instagram account). Here is the article.
What I’m listening to 🎧
It’s October meaning there is a packed playlist for September over on Spotify with tracks I loved last month including Gheist, Sophia Kennedy, Marteria, and many more. Have a listen:
What I’m watching 📺
Jean Smart rightly won an Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series with ‘Hacks’ and I enjoyed the show a lot. Deborah Vance played by Jean Smart, is a legendary Las Vegas stand-up comedy diva who starts working with Millennial comedy writer Ava is a Millennial who is unable to find work due to being "canceled" over an insensitive tweet. The two reluctantly team up to freshen up Vance's material and learn to respect each other's differences. Watch the trailer.
What I’m thinking about 🧠
As a coach I spend a lot of time in hotel conference rooms for workshops or team offsites and I’m always stunned about how uninspiring these rooms are given that the purpose of these sessions is often to think big and with fresh perspectives. I think there is a market opportunity for a new kind of offsite hotels with rooms designed to think creatively, with access to nature, and healthy food. Pondering…
What else?! 💯
After 30 years at the helm of the Jewish History Museum in Amsterdam, Hetty Berg recently took the leadership of Europe’s largest Jewish Museum in Berlin. Isa and speak with Hetty about her journey into active judaism, how she’s finding her place in the new museum and in a new city, the differences of Dutch and German work culture, and how she wants to make the museum a place of encounter. Listen to the Role Models podcast with Hetty Berg here.
Thanks for reading, have a great weekend!
David