Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?
My friends: Alistair Croll (Just Evil Enough, Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”
Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another:
- McBain (The Full Movie, High Quality, Widescreen) – Danny Matteson – YouTube. “McBain is an action hero played by The Simpsons character Rainier Wolfcastle. We see him in clips scattered across dozens of Simpsons episodes. But it turns out there’s a whole movie hiding in there, and of course, someone assembled it. Also I managed not to talk about AI this week.” (Alistair for Hugh).
- 13 Linear Tracks For A Non-Linear System – If. “Iftah Gabbai is a musician and software designer who’s built a number of plugins for Ableton Max and Push. If you’ve ever used these tools, you’ll know that they can lead to some fairly algorithmic results: When you can copy and paste the perfect riff, there’s no need to play it over and over. Each track isn’t just a track – it’s an actual plugin for Ableton, basically its own piece of software. Which means you can open it up, listen to it, reverse-engineer how it works, and even re-use parts of it. Fascinating example of the ways that tech is changing music distribution.” (Alistair for Mitch).
- Investing In The Ecosystems That Sustain Us – Tong Wu – Noema. “I think a lot about what makes a city work for me, and what doesn’t. I was just in Orlando, and well – that’s about the opposite. The key for me is a mix of walkable spaces, of non-chain street-level commerce, human scale housing, and the key: green – parks, trees in yards, and city gardens. Montreal, for all its many many faults, does all this pretty well. And for me the key that holds it together is the trees, the green, the small city gardens on street corners. Interestingly you can probably put a dollars and cents valuation on, for instance, what Montreal has invested especially in getting green spaces onto street corners. We can say what the cost is, what is the value? In any case, ‘the simple premise that the development of trees is integral to the development of people’ should be accepted by all of us, economists included.” (Hugh for Alistair).
- Sentence Structure For Writers: Understanding Weight And Clarity – David Crystal – Oxford University Press Blog. “What makes a good sentence? I feel like Mitch is a master of this, but I’ll let him evaluate himself.” (Hugh for Mitch).
- The New Yorker at 100 – Netflix. “I could spend hours walking you through just how much I love magazines. Hours… and hours… like not just reading them (or subscribing to them), but I used to publish magazines back in the early 90s. The Internet didn’t change my passion for magazines… until it did. Now, I still read magazines, but it’s mostly in PressReader. I susbscribe to many magazines… but the digital versions. Print feels very… limiting to me. The content that must be squeezed in between the ads… the cost of a magazine… and more (including where to store them all once they’ve been read). Still, I can get nostalgic for those times… big time. So, whether you are a fan of The New Yorker or not, this is a fantastic documentary (this is a link to the trailer and the full doc is on Netflix). And, yes, the magazine is still vibrant (in print and online), but it did have me thinking about just how much my magazine reading has evolved… and how I still have little-to-no interest in picking up a physical copy. Times they change…” (Mitch for Alistair).
- I Interviewed 40 Writers In 2025 (Here’s What I Learned) – How I Write – YouTube. “One good turn deserves another. One of the best podcasts on writing is, without a doubt, How I Write. The host, David Perell, manages to score some of the biggest writers in the world and he deep-dives with them like no other. I can’t recommend this podcast more if you’re into writing (and, if you’re not, you shoud be). So, sit back and enjoy this retrospective of big names in writing and bigger ideas… tons and tons of gems right here…” (Mitch for Hiugh).
Feel free to share these links and add your picks on X, Facebook, in the comments below or wherever you play.
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Mitch Joel Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.