With A Shout was recently voted the best newsletter to read while waiting in line! ;-) While waiting, read a few inspirational quotes from circus clown turned entrepreneur Derek Sivers.  Next, check out the faces at work and read a few stats that might surprise you.  Finally, dive into how a summer song staple was made; thank you, Joe Elliot!

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Matt Mic pulled 17 inspirational quotes from Derek Sivers's book How To Live, which came out last year.  Sivers is a musician and self-taught programmer who built CD Baby in the late 90s to help indie artists publish music.  His story is inspiring, and so is his writing.  Matt Mic is younger than Sivers but has been motivated by Sivers to take risks in the world of self-employed entrepreneurship.  Of the 17 quotes Mic pulled, our favorite is this one:

In a quick visual we thought we ran yesterday – Visual Capitalist gives us a representation of jobs, job categories, and artistic renderings of job people.  The source data is pulled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and many of the characteristics are familiar; here are a few that surprised us:

In the late 80s, at every swimming pool, sand volleyball court, or softball field, you would hear Def Leppad's Pour Some Sugar on Me.”  Consequence Podcasts talks with lead singer Joe Elliot for the podcast The Story Behind The Song.  Before they get into the song details, Elliot talks about the surprise of being one of a few rock bands that have sold over 100 million albums, putting them in a category with Zeppelin and The Beatles.  The story behind “Sugar," as Elliot refers to it in the podcast, reminds us of many stories from the 80s and 90s when a band had to go into a studio and record on the actual recording tape.  It was toward the end of the recording of the Hysteria album released in 1987; the band had 12 tracks on the album and was in the finishing stages when Elliot heard something at a club in London.  He took the idea back to the studio, and when the legendary producer Mutt Lang overheard what he was working on, a 13th track was born.  The rest is history; for more details, listen to Peter Csathy on the Consequence Podcast.

Getting ready for the weekend.

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

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