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, 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:
- Draining the Risk Pool – Real Life. “As we create increasingly specific insurance products aimed at temporary use, and backed up by sensors, does the fundamental idea of insurance—spreading risk—vanish? Society’s acting like maybe we aren’t in it together after all, and many insurance products take a similar perspective? Insurance is the private sector’s strongest tool for moving public policy (consider what smokers’ insurance premiums did to smoker behavior). But insurance can also have a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of action. An important, cautionary read.” (Alistair for Hugh).
- Nestflix. “The cast of Bojack Horseman starred in a fictional sitcom called, Horsin’ Around. The Office‘s Michael Scott fantasizes about being in an awful action flick called, Threat Level Midnight. Futurama‘s got The Magnificent Three; Schitt’s Creek‘s Moira Rose starred in the daytime soap, Sunrise Bay, for 21 years. Our favorite TV shows and movies reference fictional content — but what if that actually existed? Nestflix is the Inception of Netflix, packed with fake shows as referenced in real shows. So meta.” (Alistair for Mitch).
- Producing for Bob Dylan and Neil Young Taught Daniel Lanois a Thing or Two – Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity – YouTube. “Daniel Lanois is one of the great music producers to emerge from the late eighties and early nineties, crafting the sound of Peter Gabriel‘s So, U2‘s The Joshua Tree, and working with Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and many others. Wonderful to listen to him talk about music.” (Hugh for Alistair).
- Daniel Lanois – Fire (Bing Lounge) – 101.9 KINK.FM – YouTube. “In addition to producing, Daniel Lanois composes and plays beautiful music. Here’s a live version of one of my favorites from him, Fire.” (Hugh for Mitch).
- How to study effectively – Psyche. “It’s back to school time… and back to the actual office (for some). I was thinking about homework and studying. Do my kids know how to study? Do you? Do I? Did I learn how to actually study when I was a kid, or was I just given homework to complete? I don’t think that I ever really learned to study, and while schools these days claim that they teach this as a topic, I’m not sure about that based on what I see when the homework comes home. This is a great read. For your kids (if you have any) and for your work. It will make you think differently about what happens when work has to get done versus when you have to learn/study something. Enjoy…” (Mitch for Alistair).
- Montreal (1927) – Travel Film Archive – YouTube. “Hugh and I both have a keen interest in nostalgia and Montreal. Well, here’s something that I had not seen before. A tour of Montreal from 1927. This is a wild ride through history, and the city in which I was born, still live in, and love very much.” (Mitch for Hugh).
Feel free to share these links and add your picks on Twitter, 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.