Today we highlight, innovation, art, and inspiration.  Today's issue leans on the People are Great wall.  Noah Kagan, who has the best website name (OK Dork), talks to the number 1 business writer on Substack.  Good ideas for saving up for bucket list events and what happens when a group of over 40s stumbles into the under 30s party.  Another highlight of Nick Cave's Red Hand Files, he answers a 13-year-olds question about hope.  We finish with Eric Pare, who paints with cameras and light.

Noah Kagan is a successful entrepreneur working in the tech industry.  He started working in the early days of Facebook (employee #30) and, after exiting, created a website called AppSumo which promotes and highlights SaaS apps and tech as they get started in the business.  Kagan also has a popular YouTube channel and podcast where he talks about business, riding bikes, and travel.  Kagan, who lives a life many would envy, interviewed another successful entrepreneur who created a company centered around writing on Substack.

Kagan interviewed Lenny Rachitsky, who writes the #1 business newsletter on Substack.  Like Kagan, Rachitsky started a tech business acquired by Airbnb, and after a stint with Airbnb, he left to explore other opportunities.  In this interview, Rachitsky talks about how writing did not start as a business, but it can be when you find something you enjoy doing.  He also talks about his newsletter's number one referral source, and it's different from what he expected it to be. 

Check out Noah's podcast Noah Kagan Presents, and also sign up for Lenny Rachitsky's Substack; both are well worth it.

Reuters has an article that looks at an innovative way to save up for something on your dream list.  More fascinating is the amount they estimate the dream costs.  The average for an extensive ticket bucket list is $3,081.  On the list of innovative ways to pay for something on your bucket list:

A 13-year soul seeker wrote a note to Nick Cave, who responded on his site The Red Hand Files.  Ruben asked Cave's advice about living to the fullest in a world that seems to project so much hate.  Cave responds to Ruben with hope for the future.  What 13-year kid even knows who Nick Cave is, let alone ask him a question about the existential life of a creative?!

When the compliments pass, Cave speaks from one big soul to another regardless of age.  The advice is to go out and live, see, do, listen, experience, and take everything in.  Cave says it more poetically.  If you want to be inspired by the youth and the world, check the write-up for two minutes.

Zoe Williams, a columnist for The Guardian, tells us a quick little story about showing up at the wrong party.  Williams attended two parties at the venue, one for older people (40+) and one for young people (-30).  The young people's party host approached Williams and her group and treated them as if they had recently escaped from an old people's home.  The only defense we could develop for such condescension among your elders would be an open bar.  Carnage would ensue if a young host saw a group of us 40+s coming for their bar.

Moss And Fog bring an artist named Eric Pare, who creates fantastic photographs utilizing light and other tools for beautiful works of art.  Innovation meets creativity in a stunning layout.

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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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