Spring rain starts early in the Midwest, and with that, we have a couple of highlights on the seasons, the circle of time, and artist David Hockney tells us the cause of all death.  This might be the heaviest YouTube highlight newsletter we've produced to date.  All the videos are interesting and will make you think, which is our favorite thing.  Happy learning!

Austin Kleon writes about the seasons today and how he’s gone from preferring the fall to enjoying the color of spring.  He links to many great pieces in his piece, including a story on The Onion called Mr. Autumn Man.  Your feelings about the seasons might be as simple as how you feel about change.  For many a Midwesterner, we like change.

We look forward to the fall after a few months of scorching heat.  We look forward to the new growth of spring after a few months of cold weather.  We like change, and we enjoy coming out of the rain. 

The beach, the heat, or the mountains and fresh powder for skiing, for this, we go on vacation, but after seven months of beach heat, our time cycles don't handle that well.

Another artist highlighted by Kleon is David Hockney, the 83-year-old artist who released a book in 2021 during the lockdown called Spring Cannot Be Cancelled.  As both an artist and a quick-witted writer, Hockney wants to know why you are busy working, the world needs art, and Hockney says he will create art until he falls over.  He also has the quote at the bottom of today's newsletter.

In the same piece on spring and the seasons, Kleon cites Joy William's essay called Autmn, and in that essay, Williams talks about time as a repetitive circle; day and night, and all the seasons, just as our planet spins around the sun, time spins on.  What's old is new, and what's new is old.

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Morning Brew has several subject-specific newsletters underneath their umbrella, one of them is now called Raise, and this is the third name for this newsletter.  Before it was Raise, it was Sidekick and focused on Pandemic life and many WFH tips and strategies.  This latest iteration of Sidekick is to move into a career tips and techniques newsletter.  Today's newsletter has a section on strategies for helping control your hybrid work life.  If this is you and you want a tip or two written in the perfect voice, check out the newsletter.  There are five tips for hybrids; number four is called "Deceptive pants,” that’s enough to make you read it, right?

The Minimalists Podcast, created by Joshua Field Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, takes you through the many ways to analyze where you want to reduce your mental and physical clutter and lead a simpler life.  The latest episode included an interview with Dr. Paul Saladino about food clutter.  They talk about the 5 foods you should remove from your diet and the 5 foods you should add.  If you spend time working on your physical health and try to eat healthily, this episode will resonate.  They talk about the defense mechanisms plants use to defend themselves from predators and how those exact mechanisms can also affect humans.  We learned a lot from this hour; watch it here.

Check out this interview with Andrew Scheps, the Grammy Award-winning producer and engineer.  Scheps also has his own interview series called Andrew Talks To Awesome People.  We recommend the interview with Steve Lillywhite as a good place to start. Here is the best quote from the interview with Andrew:

I’m a creep.

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

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