Michael McHugh

Founder @solisrenewables & @makaydaenergy

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💰 Extraordinary outcomes come from concentrated bets
🫣 Great businesses start with hidden truths
🤐 The best opportunities are often overlooked

Lessons from Peter Thiel's Zero to One ↓

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Friday Five is live

🧠 Why thinking differently creates opportunity
🏔️ How small steps solve big problems
🎹 Dave Brubeck
📝 Lessons from Kevin Kelly, Sam Zell, and Bill Gurley
🎙️ Ezra Klein on politics, attention, and self-improvement

Read here: https://t.co/do6RfuzFGJ

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📚 My May Reading List features 5 books on success, opportunity, and independent thinking.

📖 Lessons from Kevin Kelly, Danny Meyer, Bill Gurley, Sam Zell, and Stephen Schwarzman.

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💡 Preparing for setbacks
🧗Loving the climb
👥 Building an audience
⏳ Timeless lessons from Rework
💭 Peter Kaufman on multidisciplinary thinking

Read this week's Friday Five:

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Friday Five is live

• Sonny Rollins on daily work
• Red Bull’s no-debt philosophy
• Kevin Kelly on timeless advice
• Tobi Lütke on building Shopify

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🚀 Dietrich Mateschitz ignored experts, rejected debt, and built Red Bull by obsessing over the climb, not the summit.

⚡ Creativity over profit
⚡ Action over theory
⚡ Freedom over bureaucracy

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🎵 Dr. John’s unmistakable sound
💬 Why daily work compounds
📝 Brad Jacobs on problems as assets
📚 Danny Meyer on Enlightened Hospitality
🎙️ Nick Kokonas on knowing what you’re selling

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🥤 Red Bull didn’t scale by chasing growth.
💰 It refused debt.
🎯 It bets on culture over ads.
🛡️ It survived by never risking survival.

The Red Bull Playbook is a masterclass in long-term thinking.

Read here: https://t.co/okGtNc63BP

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🧠 This week’s Friday Five explores curiosity and rejection through Bill Gurley, Jeff Bezos, Roger Federer, Phish, and Jeremy Allen White.

🎵 Music
📚 Career lessons
💬 Timeless ideas

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“If you aim for perfection and miss, you're still pretty good, but if you aim for mediocre and miss?” – Coach Bill Walsh

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"One of the things that I love is focusing on the process over the prize." – Rory McIlroy

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📚 Billion-dollar builders
🚀 Near-collapse moments
🌐 Internet empires

My April Reading List covers Elon Musk, Google, John Malone, and Brad Jacobs. Read the full list here:

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📚 My March reading list: Amazon, Federer, ikigai, and Home Depot

⚡ Lessons on resilience, purpose, business, and long-term thinking

👉 https://t.co/Hw3suMuAHO

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Friday Five is live.

🎵 The Black Keys
💬 Doing what’s right
📝 Facing rejection
📚 Sam Zell on independent thinking
🎙️ John Mackey & Whole Foods

Read here: https://t.co/6zW98eyFZi

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This Week in Friday Five

🎵 Three songs to start with: Alabama Shakes
💬 Live in the present
📝 Play nice but win
📚 Stephen Schwarzman on tackling big problems
🎙️ Jesse Itzler’s Yearly Challenge

Read here: https://t.co/qYNrPqGPw1

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📚 February reading list → 4 books on grit, business, innovation

👉 Read here: https://t.co/mVDkVogXji

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📚 January reading list → 5 books on leadership, markets, innovation

👉 Read here: https://t.co/BXEOW5Uk8g

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🎵 A song that flopped—then lasted forever
💬 See things as they are
📝 Red Bull’s brand playbook
📚 Malone’s “what if”
🎙️ Living well

Sharpen your thinking for the weekend ↓

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🚀 Red Bull didn’t sell a drink—it built a world
🎯 Marketing became the product
🏁 From Bangkok to space
💰 No debt, no shortcuts

Read more: https://t.co/qROMlAEV4i

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⚡ Thinking Small Strategy
🧠 Simplicity wins
🚀 Speed compounds
🏗 Build what matters

Read Friday Five No. 328: https://t.co/4b0OPUSHWS