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ISSUE 02/26
THE MONTHLY ECHO #January
Andreas Roth
February 02, 2026
Hi All!
Welcome to this month’s echo - a roundup of what’s been on my radar, what I’ve been pondering, and the gems I’ve stumbled across lately. Enjoy!
“The history of every day. - What is the history of every day in your case? Look at your habits that constitute it: are they the product of innumerable little cowardices and lazinesses, or of your courage and inventive reason?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
PERSONAL NEWS & VENTURES
58g - Celebrating Iconic Tennis Moments On Limited Garments. We released our first drop: Melbourne 2026, featuring four iconic stories. Feel free to check them out. The next tournament on our calendar will be Indian Wells.
TECH & DESIGN
Project Genie is an early research prototype that lets you create and explore infinitely diverse worlds. Here’s an example.
Gemini in Chrome - Help right where you need it.
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 48h REVIEW
4 a.m. L.A. → Park City by noon. Uber, LAX, wheels up at 5:50. Starbucks in Salt Lake City, straight to the first screening by 11. Lunches, caffeine, a bit of nature, little snow - and a highlight at the newly restored Sundance Mountain Resort. A perfectly compressed escape, and the last Sundance, where Robert Redford founded it, before the move to Boulder next year.
The Last First: Winter K2
The Last First examines the deadly 2021 winter attempt on K2, where five climbers lost their lives, exposing deep fractures in modern alpinism. Through Amir Bar-Lev’s documentary lens, the film explores how commercialization, social media influence, and power imbalances have reshaped extreme mountaineering, as traditional climbers, commercial teams, and celebrity Sherpas collide in a high-stakes race against one of the world’s most unforgiving mountains.
Union County
Set amid the opioid crisis in rural Ohio, the film follows Cody Parsons as he navigates a court-mandated drug program and the fragile path toward recovery. Rooted in director Adam Meeks’ hometown, the story offers an unvarnished, deeply humane portrait of addiction, community, and survival, brought to life through immersive performances and the authentic presence of local nonactors.
Soul Patrol
Soul Patrol uncovers a hidden chapter of the Vietnam War through the reunion of the first all-Black U.S. special operations team. Centered on Ed Emanuel, the film explores the profound identity conflict of Black soldiers fighting abroad while civil rights battles raged at home, using archival footage and personal testimony to confront buried trauma and reclaim a forgotten history.
ON THE WATCHLIST
Industry Season #4
HBO’s Industry returns Jan 11, 2026, entering a darker post-Pierpoint era. Season 4 expands beyond the trading floor into politics, tech, and media, as Harper Stern and a newly elevated Yasmin Kara-Hanani step fully into their power - where ambition sharpens, morality blurs, and work and life collapse into one ruthless game. Check out the Soundtrack.
Rental Family
In Rental Family (2025), Brendan Fraser stars as a struggling American actor in Tokyo who finds unexpected purpose working for an agency that rents people to play family and friends. Director Hikari’s comedy-drama explores loneliness, connection, and the thin line between performance and real human bonds.
Every SuperBowl Ad (so far)
READING LIST
Changeover by Giri Nathan
In Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men’s Tennis (Aug 2025), Giri Nathan charts the rise of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner as the sport moves beyond the Big Three. Through their contrasting styles and a defining 2024 Grand Slam split, the book captures the birth of tennis’s next great rivalry - and a new era.
Article: The Most Important Question Of Your Life
“The quality of your life is not determined by the quality of your positive experiences, but the quality of your negative experiences. And to get good at dealing with negative experiences is to get good at dealing with life.”
“I wanted the reward and not the struggle. I wanted the result and not the process. I was in love not with the fight, but only the victory. And life doesn’t work that way.”
MORE WISDOM
"Work is endless. Exercise is endless. Parenting is endless. Same with marriage, writing, investing, creating, and more. You get to choose the parts of your life, but many of the important things in life cannot be "finished."
Do not approach an endless game with a finite mindset. The objective is not to be done, but to settle into a daily lifestyle you can sustain and that allows you to make daily progress on the areas that matter.
Embrace the fact that life is continual and look for ways to enjoy the daily practice."
via James Clear
“You don’t need more time…you just need to decide.”
via Seth Godin
THE TO-DO-LIST
/sport
BNP Paribas Open - Indian Wells 2026 (03/01 - 03/15)
/industry
SXSW (03/12 - 03/18)
/sport
Sandpiper Santa Barbara
/travel
Sundance Mountain Resort
