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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #227

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:

One Lap with Rob Coneybeer – One Lap with Rob Coneybeer. "Rob is a smart VC from the Bay Area who’s been to Bitnorth and Montreal’s Startupfest. He’s a smart investor, having backed companies like Nest. He is also a hardcore race car driver. He has a new series in which entrepreneurs have exactly one lap at high speeds to pitch their product. This takes elevator pitches to the next level — and the results are pretty funny to watch." (Alistair for Hugh).
Rhyme: Why Eminem is one of the most impressive lyricists ever. "As a music fan, you’ll love this inside look into how songs are written, and the depths of true lyricism." (Alistair for Mitch).
The Runners. "Interviews on the big and small questions of life, with (jogging) joggers in London’s Victoria Park. Love, sex, God, depression, passion and more. Pretty amazing little film." (Hugh for Alistair).
Political Polarization & Media Habits – Pew Research Journalism Project. "Pew (as usual) with more interesting research, this time on the political polarization and media in the US." (Hugh for Mitch).
William Gibson: The Future Will View Us "As a Joke" – Mother Jones. "Here’s a pretty fascinating podcast/interview with the person who coined the phrases ‘cyberspace’ and ‘cyberpunk.’ Not only does famed science fiction writer, William Gibson, think that the future will see us as ‘a joke,’ but it’s shocking to read that he avoided the Internet and email for as long as he did. Beyond that, this interview also illustrates how challenging it is to be a science fiction writer, in a world where science fiction is always becoming reality." (Mitch for Alistair).
‘Am I being catfished?’ An author confronts her number one online critic – The Guardian. "For fun, several years ago, a fellow blogger and author (I think was Julien Smith, Chris Brogan or Scott Stratten) asked all of us who had also written books to head over to Amazon and read the absolute worst one. Reviews are funny. You can read hundreds of great ones, but it’s that one bad/brutal one that will always roll around in your noggin for days, weeks… and beyond. Bad stuff sticks to your ribs. I have thin skin, but you’re supposed to have thick skin. Also… never engage. In four words: Don’t feed the trolls. This author decided to go for it and ignore the online golden rule. Ugh." (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.