Sunday Funday and we bring all kinds of fun to the end of the week.  Barry Schwartz and his thoughtful ideas about choice.  With the concept of the overwhelm that can come with too many options, we also offer a solution of grabbing a choice and working through it before picking up another one.  Siouxsie Sioux started performing in the mid-70s; she hit the stage again this week and made a great choice.  A good seven minutes of Roy Kent (before season 3) to make you chuckle, followed by an unbelievable story about pasta.  We close the week with another impressive songwriter and musician who also hit the stage again this week, don't Blink!

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Four Minute Books, a book summary website, wrote a summary of Barry Schwartz's book The Paradox of Choice.  Schwartz also gave a famous Ted Talk back in the early 2000s, all about limiting choice.  Similar to the paralysis of analysis, if you have too many things to look at, analyze or decide, you may choose not to do anything, or it will take you longer to do what you need to do.  Schwartz says there are two effects of too many choices:

The With A Shout newsletter is an example of making a decision, building a system around the decision, and moving forward with being comfortable in Good Enough for now.  Today is Sunday, May 7th, 2023, and this is the 235th consecutive issue of the With A Shout newsletter.  Could it be better?  Yes; would it be as far along as it is if it wasn't published daily for the last eight months?  No?

Any founder, creator, and entrepreneur will tell you it's better to launch and fail ten times than to never launch anything.  If you give yourself too many choices, getting things moving is difficult.

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In a welcome return to the stage Siouxsie Sioux came roaring back to Belgium earlier this week.  Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees started in the mid-70s, and Sioux herself is 65 years old.  Sioux was part of the punk and alternative scene in the UK in the 70s and grew into a powerful force and, some say, the Queen of Goth.  Call her what you want; we will stick with talented, iconic, and fun to listen to.

As anyone with a carb Love/Hate relationship will tell you, pasta is a favorite battleground.  Who hasn't wanted to grab all the pasta in the cupboard at one time or another and throw it out?!  While we might fantasize about how to dump the carbs, someone in the Garden State did just that.  Approximately 300 to 400 pounds of uncooked pasta was dumped near Veterans Park.  The pictures are extraordinary; who would have this much pasta, and where were they keeping it?

A picture is worth a thousand words, but check out these words when commenting on the pasta mystery:

Songwriter and musician Tom DeLonge started; Blink 182, Boxcar Racer, and Angels & Airwaves.  Between all three bands, they have released over 20 albums.  DeLonge,47, has written and performed a discography of several hundred songs.  For a self-taught guitarist and songwriter known for fast, short, California skate pop punk is soaking wet with talent.  Kerrang gives us an interview with DeLonge and the ten songs that define him.  A tough ask with a catalog as deep as DeLonge's.  A reformed Blink 182 kicked off the reunion tour this week in Minneapolis.

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

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