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The Mind-Blowing Julie Slick On This Month's Groove - The No Treble Podcast

Julie Slick is this month's conversation on Groove - The No Treble Podcast.

You can listen the new episode right here: Groove - The No Treble Podcast - Episode #34 - Julie Slick.

Who is Julie Slick?

Many people know Julie Slick as a virtuoso bassist and composer. Some know her best for her work in the progressive rock outfit, Adrian Belew Power Trio (yes, he of King Crimson fame). Her story is much deeper and more astonishing than you might imagine. From her humble beginnings at the genesis of School of Rock to her own projects and music (EchoTest). Julie is someone who doesn't just push the instrument forward - in terms of playing style, sound, and technology - but she is also someone trying to break boundaries of what people think of when they hear the bass. Often the loops and effects take the instrument (and her songs) to a whole other stratosphere. This is what makes her a truly original player and someone who defines groove in her own unique way. Melody, innovation, technology, technique and her own borderless attitude, makes Julie one of the most fascinating musicians laying it down these days. Enjoy the conversation...

Listen in: Groove - The No Treble Podcast - Episode #34 - Julie Slick.

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What is Groove - The No Treble Podcast?

This is an ambitious effort. This will be a fascinating conversation. Our goal at Groove is to build the largest oral history of bass players. Why Groove? Most of the content about the bass revolves around gear, playing techniques, and more technical chatter. For us, bassists are creative artists with stories to tell. They are a force to be reckon with. These are the stories and conversation that we will capture. To create this oral history of why these artists chose the bass, what their creative lives are like, and where inspiration can be found.

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Scott Galloway Rants On The Digital Age - This Week's Six Pixels Of Separation Podcast

Episode #587 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

He's one of the most respected thinkers in digital media. It's mostly due to his YouTube rants... and he pulls no punches. It takes many people aback, because Scott Galloway is not your typical YouTuber. Scott is a Clinical Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business where he teaches brand strategy and digital marketing. In 2012, Professor Galloway was named "One of the World's 50 Best Business School Professors" by Poets & Quants. He is also the founder of Red Envelope and Prophet Brand Strategy. Scott was elected to the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders of Tomorrow and has served on the boards of directors of Urban Outfitters, Eddie Bauer, The New York Times Company, and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. I first discovered Scott's work as the Founder of L2 research (now owned by Gartner) and his incredible keynote presentations on state of the digital economy called, Winners And Losers In The Digital Age. Most recently, Scott published his first business book, The Four - The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, and it's an incredible read. Enjoy the conversation...

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via iTunes): Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast #587.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #380

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, Pandemonio, and ResolveTO, Author of Lean Analytics and some other books), 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: 

Everipedia is the Wikipedia for being wrong - The Outline . "Wikipedia was originally going to be written by 1,000 paid librarians. Instead, it became the world's biggest example of what happens when people apply their cognitive surplus to curation. That curation takes a lot of time and effort -- pages on topics like climate change or gun control are constantly being edited, rolled back, and locked down. And some people think that's an affront to free speech. What if it wasn't curated, and nobody checked sources? That's what Everpedia is." (Alistair for Hugh). 
This Future Looks Familiar: Watching Blade Runner in 2017 - Tor.com . "I'm ridiculously excited to see the new Blade Runner. I can't imagine not having seen the original, but apparently some people still haven't. Here's a pretty jarring look at what it's like to see the dark sci-fi original for the first time, through the eyes of someone living in the modern world." (Alistair for Mitch).
This Is the Perfect Facebook Post - Vice . "If I'm not mistaken, Alistair grew up in Atlantic Canada, now home of the greatest Facebook post ever." (Hugh for Alistair).
Group of White Men in Patagonia Vests Confused for VC Fund, Raise $500 Million - Fortune . "Pretty spot on." (Hugh for Mitch). 
Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is? - New York Magazine . "Most of us spend a significant amount of our time thinking about technology and how humans interact with it. We also think a lot of about Facebook. Facebook is big. Facebook is not what you think it is. This is a great (and long) read about the current state of Facebook. There are many layers to this story. There are many layers to this company. You may think that you know what Facebook means... would may be mistaken." (Mitch for Alistair).
The Coming Creativity Explosion Belongs to the Machines - SingularityHub . "This is the hard stuff for all of us to ponder. It's not the tasks that no one wants to do when it comes to automation. It's not the tasks that we can't even think about doing when it comes to automation. It's the creative stuff. The creative work is the work that we believe will always be relegated to human beings. I've said it before... and I will say it again: if we think that automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence will change everything and stop at creativity, we are fooling ourselves... and the computers will have the last laugh." (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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Join Terry And Me Live In Montreal, Ikea Buys Task Rabbit And More On This Week's CTRL ALT Delete Segment On CHOM 97.7 FM

Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio out of Montreal (home base). It's not a long segment - about 5 to 10 minutes every week - about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly on iHeart Radio, if you're interested in hearing more of me blathering away about what's going on in the digital world. I'm really excited about this opportunity, because this is the radio station that I grew up on listening to, and it really is a fun treat to be invited to the Mornings Rock with Terry DiMonte morning show. The segment is called, CTRL ALT Delete with Mitch Joel.

This week we discussed: 

Next Tuesday (October 10th, 2017) Terry DiMonte will be interviewing me in a very special and intimate charity cocktail event called, Ignite Your Brand - Light The Night. We are both doing this to support the Light The Night Walk (for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada). Tickets are $100, they are going fast and they do come with a charitable donation deduction. Come on down and hang out with us. Tickets are available here.
Twitter is known mostly for one thing (and no, it's not tweetstorms from the current US President) - 140 character. Last Tuesday they announced that it is testing tweets as long as 280 characters. Right now, it's only open to a select few, but it's coming. It is also doing this to level the playing field in countries where languages take up more characters. Others feel like it's another move to grow its stagnating user base. 
TaskRabbit allows anybody to go online and find someone to do their tasks for a minimal fee. Need someone to walk your dog? Design a logo? Help you move something? TaskRabbit is one of the originators of the "gig economy." Well, Swedish furniture company, Ikea, has just bought TaskRabbit. What is Ikea's play here? 
App of the week: Service.

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Making Great Choices With Roger Martin - This Week's Six Pixels Of Separation Podcast

Episode #586 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

A legend in the world of business, leadership and management. A true legend. That is a fact when it comes to Roger Martin. Roger has published over ten bestselling business books, the most recent of which are Creating Great Choices (with Jennifer Riel), Getting Beyond Better and Playing to Win. He is known as being one of the individuals behind the inception of concepts like "design thinking" and "integrative thinking." He's an academic (the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management and the Premier's Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean as well) and deep thinker (he has written a ton of article for Harvard Business Review and placed third on the 2013 Thinkers50 list. When big companies need to think differently about innovation and strategy, they turn to Roger. In this episode, we discuss his latest book, Creating Great Choices, on integrative thinking and the current business landscape. Enjoy the conversation...

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via iTunes): Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast #586.

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Lessons From 14 Years With Six Pixels Of Separation

Today almost got away from me.

I looked at my day's meetings and realized that today - September 29th, 2017 - marks the 14th anniversary of this space, Six Pixels Of Separation. It's the kind of "celebration" that brings out two diametrically opposed feelings: 

Feeling #1: It can't be 14 years... it feels like yesterday. Have blogging and podcasting really been around for close to two decades?
Feeling #2: It's 14 years... that's a looooonnnnggg time to be publishing articles, podcasts, sharing links and trying to build a community and audience around the intersection of brands, consumers and technology. Is anybody still listening/reading? Do people still call this a blog? A podcast? Should I be calling it a day on this platform, and just write/publish on Facebook, Medium and LinkedIn?

My friend, Scott Stratten, says it best: "Everything has changed and nothing is different."

People still like to read, listen, learn, share, riff on someone else's thoughts and have a general connection to those who are like-minded, or who can help them grow (professionally, personally and communally). So, here we are. 14 years on and I don't feel much like slowing down. The truth is this: Six Pixels of Separation is 14 years old, but I published my first professional (re: paid) piece of "journalism" back in 1989. I have been writing professionally and interviewing people for close to 30 years (ok, that number really freaks me out!).

With that, I do believe that I have some "lessons learned" after 14 years...  

Words are hard. Finding the right one. Making them stick together. Making them flow with cohesion. Making it worth your time. There is no bigger pressure than thinking, "what should I write today?" With that comes a lot of thinking about how everything will be taken in, consumed, ingested and reacted upon. I admire the writers who do this without self-censoring or worrying about what the reader will think. More work to be done here.
Words are easy. I keep a list of ideas. Ideas to write about and people to interview for the podcast. It's a long list. I am not out of ideas. It's such a long list, that it can often intimidate me. Brand leaders will often ask me where my ideas for content come from. That's not the challenge. The challenge is in figuring out the time to get just one of those ideas into something consumable for the audience. The words do flow easily when you have a lot of things that you want to say. There is no running out of ideas, but there is a problem of finding the time to share ideas.
Conversations are not interviews. People will often stop and compliment me on my interviewing prowess. I thank them, but I often whisper to myself that I have no idea how to conduct an interview. Every podcast that you listen to - and every article that you read of mine - is just my curiosity getting the best of itself. Think about it like this: if we were going for coffee, I would spend a significant amount of time before our date learning and understanding you, so that it's a mutually beneficial meeting. It's a conversation. So, no, I hate interviews... but I love a great conversation.
I am not an original. I am inspired. There are so many people who inspire me to think, write, ask better questions and more. My earlier influences were brilliant minds like Seth Godin, Tom Peters, Steven Pressfield and the authors behind The Cluetrain Manifesto. I became an infovore. Books, magazines, blogs and more. Today, platforms like Medium inspire me in ways that I could have never imagined. Some days, I am intimated, as I believe that all good ideas have already been published. Other days, I realize that it's not about being truly original as much as it is about having an original voice.
Without reading, there is no writing. Most people who lack ideas, creativity, innovation or something different to say simply aren't reading enough. Read. Read. Read. That is the secret sauce to writing and publishing. The more you read, the more you will write.
Open up wide and say ahhhh! When I am my most vulnerable and candid, I get the most attention, traffic and reactions. That may seem obvious to you, but that does not make it easy. I started writing as a journalist. I was a conduit for a story. Blogging and podcasting flip that on its head. I try my best to open up, but it's not easy. So, the lesson here is this: Open up! That's a lesson for me... not you (but you can have it).
I love you. I really do. I'm not great at accolades - both giving and receiving them (he writes, as he lies down on the couch). In the early days of blogging, I often got in trouble for my lack of engagement in comments. I will often read comments about myself on Facebook, Twitter or beyond and not "like" them. Please don't take this personally. It really is me... and not you. I read them all. I see them all. I am paying attention. More importantly, I do love you. If you're reading this.... I love you. There, I said it. I write, podcast and more because I love it. More importantly, I want this work to reach a bigger audience... and that's you. I'm so thankful that you're here... and that you care about this content.
It's not about you. It really isn't. I was recently on stage at Content Marketing World in Cleveland. I was on a panel about podcasting. One of the questions was about building an audience. I flippantly said that I don't care about my audience. What I meant is this: I create content that inspires me, and I hope that it finds an audience. If you're writing content only to satiate an audience, it's going to be a hard slog. Create for yourself. Let the content find its audience. 
Write free! I've never been paid for any of the content that I have published on Six Pixels of Separation. To some of my professional writer friends/media professionals, they just don't get it. I used to think about it in terms of the music industry: you sell your albums/CDs/tours but radio is a free promotional tool to lock in the fans. The music industry has changed dramatically (and so has the publishing games). Doc Searls recently said that in the past you made money from writing and now you make money because of your writing. I believe this to be true. Writing for free has brought in many clients, speaking opportunities, chances to write for other publications (that pay), several book deals and more. Plus, when you write for free, you're writing free. Free from editors, opinions and more. It's unfiltered... and I like that. 
Respect. I respect you. I respect your time. I respect publishing. Pushing this even further: I respect the publishing button. I don't want to publish anything and everything. I want to publish things that (I hope) matter. This includes Twitter and other social media channels. It's a busy, busy content world out there. I don't want the work to be another thing to flop on top of that pile of clutter.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for caring. Thank you for your attention. If this was of any value to you, please check this out as well: It Is Time To Ignite Your Brand... And Light The Night!

       

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #379

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, Pandemonio, and ResolveTO; Author of Lean Analytics and some other books), 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: 

Honest Theatre Awards - Allison Page - Medium . "I love me a good list. And I'm pretty sure this would be a much better awards ceremony than most of what's on TV today." (Alistair for Hugh).
The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - The New Yorker . "Take a trip down a rabbit-hole where this beloved children's classic is a totalitarian regime. It's actually pretty convincing. 'Sir Topham Hatt ... looks like Monopoly's Rich Uncle Pennybags but with eyes that have almost surely witnessed murder.' Ouch." (Alistair for Mitch).
The Isolated Vocal Track Of The Beach Boys Singing 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' Is A Master Class In Harmony - Trendingly . "The title says it all." (Hugh for Alistair).
What is Anchoring in Negotiation? - Harvard Law School . "This is more for me than for Mitch (I've got some negotiating to do over the next year), but I hear there's a certain unmentionable-in-our-shared-links famous political figure in the USA who's a big user of this technique, so it's fascinating how it all works." (Hugh for Mitch).
Break-Up - Act One: Dr. Phil - This American Life . "Earlier this week on Facebook, I asked people for an admission. My post was: 'What's the cheesiest song that you simply love and can never get enough of? Mine's: Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) by Christopher Cross. Your turn...' I got a lot of great answers. It's funny how music affects us in so many different ways. Someone posted that Phil Collins' Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) was their top indulgence. It reminded me of this incredible segment on This American Life about breaking up, songs about breaking up and more. In short, the journalist decides to write their own ballad to get over a break-up, and reaches out to Phil Collins for advice. Candidly, I think Hugh may have put this on my radar back in the day. It made me take a re-listen and want to share it here. Take a listen (start at Act One - Dr. Phil). This is brilliant!..." (Mitch for Alistair).
A French chef's plea to relinquish his Michelin stars is proof success can be truly soul-crushing - Quartz . "There is a lot to unpack in this article. From how we define success to how to move on to other levels of success to excess and attention. There's also a powerful statement about perceptions. It's not often that we have a leading chef with 'success' who is so candid and emotional in a profile. That's my favourite part, candidly. Words like 'serenity' are not the kind of words we typically see in profiles like this. It's refreshing. And, hopefully, will open up a much broader dialogue around how we all feel - as people - about what happens when success does its thing. Just love this." (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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It Is Time To Ignite Your Brand... And Light The Night!

What will it take for your business to thrive in the future?

It is very rare that I get the opportunity to take part in a public event in my hometown of Montreal. I give about 50 presentations (all over the world) every year about what businesses need to know about consumers, and how technology has changed their buying behaviors and patterns (and who they are loyal to). It is even more rare that I get the chance to connect with everyone for a great and meaningful cause.

Join me and other local business leaders, media personalities and local luminaries on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017 from 5:30 - 8:30 pm. 

Ignite Your Brand... And Light The Night will be a special 5-7 cocktail coupled with an in-depth fireside chat that CHOM FM's Terry DiMonte will conduct with me. In this conversation we will discuss everything from what the current landscape of successful brands looks like, business transformation, brand disruption and how to create a future-proof business in these complex times. We will also discuss my personal journey from music journalist and early-days of the Internet to record label owner and my current role of 15+ years leading one of the world's largest digital marketing agencies, Mirum. 

Why are we doing this Ignite Your Brand... And Light The Night Event?

Every year, I have been taking part in the Light The Night walk to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada. I do this because I love Leah Knecht. Leah is my best friend's daughter. Back in 2010, Yosi (my BFF) called to let me know that his five year old daughter had cancer... leukemia. My world collapsed. A few weeks prior she was at my kid's birthday party, laughing, playing... perfect. Now... leukemia? It was - without a question - one of the hardest moments in my life... trying to understand - and take in - what my close friend was telling me about his daughter... who I would treat as my own daughter. I went into a tailspin. Leah's courage throughout this nightmare is what pulled everyone through - family and friends. If there were ever a definition for the word "survivor" it is Leah. After a lengthy and hard battle, the cancer went into remission, and she went back home where she belongs: with her family and friends. She is doing great these days, and she just started high school. Many are not as lucky as Leah... sadly.

Here are the details:

Ignite Your Brand - Light The Night.

Tuesday, October 10th. 2017.
5:30 - 8:30 pm.
La Plaza Hotel - 420 Sherbrooke West - Montreal, Quebec.
Price: $100 per ticket (there will be taxable donation refund on this).
We will also have prizes and other surprises (of course)!

Please join us! It's going to be a great evening! Tickets can be purchased here: Ignite Your Brand - Light The Night.

If you can't join us, I will still be walking in support of this great cause, and would welcome any donations that you can make. I do my best to put out lots of content every week. This makes it close to five thousand "articles" over the years. This isn't about me raising money. It's about our kids and the randomness and cruelty that is leukemia... and because none of us are safe. I do realize that times are tough, and many of us are watching our wallets just a little bit closer than we usually do, but please consider giving something. If over the years, any of my content has struck a chord with you, made you smile, made you see your business world in a different way, I hope that you will consider this ask as the "tip jar" for my thoughts.

If you can find it in your heart to give, please do so right here: Light The Night Walk.

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Facebook Will Spend $1 Billion On Original Programming And More On This Week's CTRL ALT Delete Segment On CHOM 97.7 FM

Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio out of Montreal (home base). It's not a long segment - about 5 to 10 minutes every week - about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly on iHeart Radio, if you're interested in hearing more of me blathering away about what's going on in the digital world. I'm really excited about this opportunity, because this is the radio station that I grew up on listening to, and it really is a fun treat to be invited to the Mornings Rock with Terry DiMonte morning show. The segment is called, CTRL ALT Delete with Mitch Joel.

This week we discussed: 

Montreal to Toronto in under 40 minutes? This could happen if Elon Musk's Hyperloop gives Montreal the nod. The route is the only Canadian winner among 10 international entries chosen in a competition sponsored by Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One, and now will be studied to determine commercial viability. So, this Hyperloop thing is more than a dream. The route proposed would include a stop in Ottawa. The proposal suggests a trip from Toronto to Ottawa would take 27 minutes and the Ottawa-Montreal leg would take another 12 minutes. Of course, the next logical step would be to extend the hyperloop system into the U.S., west to Detroit from Windsor, Ont., and east from Quebec to Niagara Falls and Buffalo and on toward Chicago, New York and Boston. If this happens (and it could), it would change everything from economics to how we live and work. 
Facebook announced that they were all set to invest $1 billion on original programming. Apple made a similar announcement recently, but they have not had much commercial or critical success with Planet of the Apps and Carpool Karaoke. We all know how much YouTube, Twitter and Netflix are spending (it's in the billions). What will TV look like when this much money is being put out by these players... and not the cable companies?
App of the week: Flight Radar 24.

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Killing Marketing With Robert Rose - This Week's Six Pixels Of Separation Podcast

Episode #585 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

This conversation should have happened years ago. When I think about content marketing, I think about Robert Rose (and his co-author/business in crime buddy, Joe Pullizi, of course). To state what Robert Rose does is simple: he helps marketers become stellar storytellers. But that's really not even the half of it. For more than 25 years, Robert has been at the forefront of marketing and content marketing. He is currently the Chief Strategy Officer for The Content Advisory, the education and consulting group for The Content Marketing Institute, and is deeply involved in Content Marketing World. Robert also co-hosts the amazing podcast, PNR's This Old Marketing, with Joe. He is also an investor and advisor to startups like Akoonu, DivvyHQ and Tint. Most recently, he published his third book, Killing Marketing, with co-author Joe Pulizzi. His two other books were Experiences - The Seventh Era of Marketing and Managing Content Marketing. So, is it time to kill marketing? You be the judge. Enjoy the conversation...

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via iTunes): Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast #585.

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