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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #225

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 (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, Solve For Interesting, the author of Complete Web Monitoring, Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks and Lean Analytics), Hugh McGuire (PressBooks, LibriVox, iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto) 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:

Why The U.S. Chills Its Eggs And Most Of The World Doesn’t – NPR. "I’ve always wondered about this. Turns out there are good reasons why. Also, if you live in the US, you probably shouldn’t keep your eggs on the counter." (Alistair for Hugh).
You are not your browser history – Medium. "Jer Thorp has been working with a group of smart researchers and journalists on a project that lets people see how advertisers profile them. The result is a browser plug-in, which hopefully will help show how ad algorithms decide who sees what (and who’s marginalized as a result.) To kick it off, Jer asked ten strangers to profile him based on his ad history." (Alistair for Mitch).
The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Ever – The New York Times Magazine. "Louisiana, oil and environmental destruction." (Hugh for Alistair).
Roughly Three Minutes of Bill Murray Singing Along to Bob Dylan – Gawker. "Sometimes bad things are good. Here is Bill Murray smoking butts and singing along with Bob Dylan. Was this the ‘best’ link of the week? No. Not really. But I like it." (Hugh for Mitch).
30 Self-Help Books That Permanently Changed My Life – Time. "Some people… scratch that… a lot of people seem to poo poo self-help books. I don’t. I take them very seriously, so long as they are written by someone with who either has tremendous credibility or someone with something real to say. Regardless of how ‘light’ some of these books can be, there are often nuggets in them that roll around between my earholes and keep me thinking – or at least, reflecting – on some of the bigger things in my life that I should be paying more attention to. Here is is a list of thirty books… most of them I haven’t read, but many of them have helped me… deeply." (Mitch for Alistair).
What You Need To Know About Your Second Draft – Terrible Minds. "We live in a world where we write blog posts, online articles and more with little happening in terms of the editing process. We write, we check quickly for spelling mistakes and we publish. Serious writers work with editors. They tear their words to shreds. They re-write sections (sometimes, the entire piece). Self-editing doesn’t even hold a candle to working with an editor. Rarely do we see people doing a lot of self-editing. How many times have you written a blog post, stepped away from it, came back and made a second draft of your work? Here’s a wonderful piece that breaks down the value in editing… and multiple drafts. It’s essential reading for anyone who likes to create with words." (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.