The letter is getting out late today.  Meetings with production companies on the With A Shout podcast are coming soon, and we spent the day in an all-day idea-a-thon!  We also volunteered at school for Giving Tuesday and finally managed to keep the streak and get the letter out just in time to count down day #76! 

Today is Giving Tuesday, a day to give some of your time to volunteering for a good cause, sending a Venmo to a charity that will use it to help, or taking it even further and signup for something even more significant.  A quick search and Giving Tuesday may have started in 2012 in NYC, but the spirit has grown and now includes lots of organizations doing lots of good work. 

We are big fans of volunteering, and if Giving Tuesday helps to start the thinking process, there are lots of places to put your time and talents.  Being involved as a volunteer gives you a better sense of whom you are helping and an understanding of the organization you are working with and supporting.  In the end, if you allow a population of people with your hands and your heart, you will get as much out of the experience as they will.

Merriam-Webster has announced that Gaslighting is the Word of the Year.  Searches for the word were up almost 2,000% in 2022.  The word’s origins come from a movie in the 30s where a man tries to convince his wife that she’s going insane.  We guess that’s a good definition of social media and discourse over the last few years.  Faceless words spewed by sore thumbs to the masses who can’t look away. 

A sad commentary, what’s the antidote to gaslighting – be informed.  And to be notified, you need multiple sources of good information that pass your smell test.  Don’t take any person or news source as the end of all the data.  Research, read, discuss and take everything without a doubt. 

Vala Afshar posted a video of Steve Jobs talking about remaking Apple.  In less than 9 minutes, Jobs will teach you about product and brand marketing in its highest and most successful form.  A lesson takes most of us markers a lifetime and many mistakes to learn.  RIP, Steve Jobs, Think Differently.

A friend of the work, Austin Kleon, did it again.  He took the Hersey Kisses papers and turned them into art.  We are Stealing this like an artist!

Billy Idol was on After School Radio this week and told his tattoo story.  A character named Octobriana, who Idol thought was a heroin of Russia and supposed to fight communism and be the voice of the voiceless.  Later on, he found out the story was a hoax.  Oh well, that’s pretty punk rock to us! 

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