Hello Wednesday readers – quick thought – if a newsletter like this isn’t fun to write – it won’t be fun to read.  Let’s have some fun today.  A new project series starts today, and we dive into Purpose; a discussion on how to define and cultivate it; the podcast that delivers the story also uses clips from great movies.  From movies to another great story that starts with an Audiobook review.  Next, do you still print stuff?  Do you feel bad when you do?  Let's discuss it!

Today we listened to a Podcast that had been in our queue for a few days.  The podcast is called Hidden Brain, and we are familiar with it.  This episode in one of our recommendation feeds is about Cultivating Your Purpose, which we are interested in.  Right off the start, the podcast goes into both The Graduate and the scene where Dustin Hoffman sits in the pool, and his dad asks him what he's doing.  He responded, "Well, I would say I'm just drifting here in the pool.”  If you ever saw The Graduate, you know the scene and how floating aimlessly through life is familiar to many. 

The challenge with purpose is the definition, and in this podcast, they give several explanations and ways to think about it.  One of those ideas is the difference between Purpose and Meaning.  Shankar Vedantam is the podcast host, and he interviews Anthony Burrow, a Cornell University psychologist; one of the ways he explains purpose is by comparing it to meaning.  According to Burrow, meaning involves looking back, and purpose is aspiring to accomplish.

This exchange with references to The Graduate and the separation of purpose vs. meaning was in the first 20 minutes of the hour-long podcast.  The next movie referenced is Lost in Translation; talk about a great way to introduce a challenging concept, do it with film! 

This is also part of a series, and Cultivating Your Purpose is the third in five episodes focusing on happiness.  We are returning to the first one in the series and will write up a new entry each week until we are Happy!

Designboom highlights several designers and companies developing innovative ways of making products from other products or recycled materials.  Other products highlighted can break down and biodegrade to be more eco-friendly.  Recycled fishing nets into skateboards, 3D-printed shoes that can be returned to the manufacturer and made again.

In a first for us, a review of an audiobook.  The Guardian reviewed NYT writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel called Fleishman Is in Trouble.  Described in The Guardian article as a funny and well-plotted novel, it is also a TV show on FX.  Adding the info about the audiobook actor Allyson Ryan captures the dialogue, which is tough.  Readers like us always listen to a good Storytime. 

The WSJ gives us a story we deal with daily – To Print or Not To Print.  One of the best lines in the piece is that you don't need a printer until you need a printer.  In a digital world, our office printer prints off items lost in the mountains of digital data on our computers.  Somehow printing off the email, word doc, or another thing will help it rise to the top of the pile.  Sad as that might be.

Oceanography studies all aspects of the ocean; here is an excellent element of a beautiful world underwater.  The site is called Underwater Photography Guide.

The second installment of Sheffield's 1983 Hits OPUS.  Today let's look at spots number 60 to 51, and we will start with spot 60, Def Leppard's Photograph.  If you were in high school in the 80s, there was heavy metal on one side and punk and alternative on another.  If you are going to be genre specific, you hide your metal side to show off your punk, and vice-versa.  Then Def Leppard came along and blew all that away; hard rock, heavy metal, and pop jumped on this train, and that song broke Def Leppard in the States for good.

The nine other songs below Photograph include six more songs that could be considered punk or alternative, from The B52s to The Minutemen, and this section of the list ends with The Police, who have been an alternative rock since the late 70s.  We are creating a playlist for Apple and Spotify; we will link to it once we get through the list.  Next week we hit the 30s.  Here are the next ten drops,

Photograph.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

Thank you for spending a few minutes with us. Here’s one for the road!

With A Shout newsletter is written by Johnny Christian with the support of a thousand idea bits and the help of many people.

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