Friday's Five ✋ #306
Happy Friday! ☀️
Moin from Hamburg where I’m meeting my ForChiefs colleagues for a day connecting, learning from each other, and exploring Hamburg. I spent the week with clients in Berlin and things seem to be picking up again after people come back from their summer breaks.
What I’m reading 📖
When I got home the other day I found a package addressed to me that included the book ‘1979’ from Christian Kracht. The strange thing is that I don’t remember ordering it and there was no note. I started reading it this week and I like the laconic style of writing that invites the reader to fill in the blanks. Set in Teheran in 1979 at the dawn of the Islamic Revolution, the story follows a German architect who loses his ex-partner and goes on a journey to climb a mountain. More about the book.
What I’m listening to 🎧
On the Search Engine podcast, PJ Vogt answers the kinds of questions you might ask the internet when you can’t sleep. In this episode he asks the question ‘how to find new music now that I’m old and irrelevant?’ To answer it, he invites Kalefa Sanneh who he describes as someone who listens to more music than anyone else in the world.
What I’m watching 📺
Late to the game to ‘Outlander’, a historic drama series that first started in 2014 and is now in its seventh season. I’m quite hooked on the series and have been binging it for the past few weeks. The story revolves around a former second world war British nurse who travels back in time to Scotland in 1743 where she marries a highlander and becomes embroiled in the Jacobite rising. Watch the trailer.
What I’m thinking about 🧠
On the train ride to Hamburg I’ve been reflecting on the long weekend I spent with my best bud north of Berlin last weekend. Matze took me to St. Oberholz Retreat for a friends weekend that was filled with long conversations, good good, laughter, and long swims in the lake.
What else?! 💯
Every time I’m in Stockholm I stop by the Fotografiska to check out their current photo exhibition and grab a bite in their veranda restaurant (the white pizza with the pickled lemon is my favorite). Yesterday I met my old pal Yousef who became the Executive Director of Fotografiska Berlin 2 years ago. The new location is set at iconic Tacheles and is set to open on September 14. Yousef gave me a tour of the buzzy construction site and it’s impressive. Lots of exhibition space, cafés, restaurant, two bars, and a ballroom. Excited about this new addition to the Berlin culture map. More about Fotografiska Berlin.
Thanks for reading, have a great weekend!
David
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