Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon Music, included with Prime.

Sean has had some good ideas over the years, but using Canva was a really good one.

Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.

They looked good.

Really, really good.

Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the loft, including the car.

Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.

Thanks, Canva.

We've all done something that we've later regretted.

It seems so right at the time, you know, but in hindsight, it turned out to be really, really dumb.

Maybe we were misinformed or lacking all the information we needed.

Maybe it was our emotion or it was ego that prompted us down

that path. Or maybe we just disobeyed what our gut was telling us. Hey, what's that big wooden horse

thing outside the city gates? Let's bring it inside. That kind of thing. There's a bunch of them.

Prohibition, New Coke, the Ford Edsel, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, or the doofuses at

Mars for refusing to allow M&Ms to be used in the movie E.T. That's why Elliot ended up using

Reese's pieces. Listen, everybody has regrets, right? The best we can do is minimize the number we

have. So, how can we do that? Well, the first thing that we can do is study

the mistakes of others. If Hitler had learned anything from Napoleon and not decided to invade

Russia during the winter, what kind of world would we be living in now? Then there are all the

bad decisions that we've seen in the music industry. Elvis agreeing to do all those bad movies,

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