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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #502

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 (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, 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:

An Agenda for the 2020s: Inventing the Knowledge Age – Continuations. “Albert Wenger wrote The World After Capital, which is in my aspirational reading queue—I think that as a society, we aren’t prepared for possible abundance, since we equate scarcity with value. Watching recent political events, it’s clear that polarization means even more spending by both sides, resulting in a feedback loop of more and more focus on politics itself, rather than on getting things done—the underlying goal of societies. Wenger has written a pretty compelling list of things we need to tackle, and soon.” (Alistair for Hugh).
Have the Boomers Pinched Their Children’s Futures? – Lord David Willetts – The Royal Institution. “Want to see how we got here? Demographics. This is a fascinating talk from The Royal Institution‘s lecture series, that looks at how populations, aging, and fiscal policy makes us what we are. And the results, generations in the making, aren’t pretty. I had a root canal today, with another scheduled for next week—so maybe I’m just pessimistic.” (Alistair for Mitch).
Avocado crime soars as Mexican gangs turn focus from opium to ‘green gold’ – Financial Post. “Apparently there’s a new show coming out based on Miami Vice, called Millennial Toast, which follows the morally grey world of undercover cops and the Avacado cartels.” (Hugh for Alistair).
Rediscovering the Lost Power of Reading Aloud – LitHub. “I pretty much met Mitch because of audiobooks (LibriVox), and it turns out reading aloud is just the way it used to happen.” (Hugh for Mitch).
No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay In The Air – Scientific American. “This is both concerning and fascinating. As someone who flies over 100,000 miles every year, I had heard this trope that ‘nobody knows how planes stay in the air.’ I thought it was some flat earthers kind of nonsense, because… science. Then, this article floats across my feed, and the source is legit. I read this article and wondered how many people know this truth. That science is often imperfect and unexplainable and it simply works.” (Mitch for Alistair).
Notes of a Chronic Rereader – The Pais Review. “I read. A lot. Nonstop. I am a chronic reader. So much so, that I will using the term ‘chronic reader’ to describe myself (it will make me sound smart, right? ;). With that, I am not a chronic rereader. Sure, there are some books that I like to refer back to and reread. But it’s a small handful. This is a beautiful piece about the glory of reading, writing, thinking, studying and all of the other things that I wish I could spend much more time doing. So, are you reader, writer and a rereader?” (Mitch for Hugh).

Feel free to share these links and add your picks on Twitter, Facebook, in the comments below or wherever you play.

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.