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SPOS #814 – Barry Nalebuff On Better Ways To Negotiate

Welcome to episode #814 of Six Pixels of Separation.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #814 – Host: Mitch Joel. He is the Milton Steinbach Professor at the Yale School of Management, where he has taught for over thirty years. Barry Nalebuff is an expert on game theory, he has written extensively on its application to business strategy. His bestselling books include, Thinking Strategically, The Art of Strategy, and Mission in a Bottle. He advised the NBA in their negotiations with the Players Association and several firms in major M&A transactions. His latest book is called, Split The Pie – A Radical New Way To Negotiate. Barry has been teaching the Split the Pie method to MBAs and execu tives at Yale and online at Coursera. His Introduction to Negotiation course has over 350,000 enrolled students and a 4.9/5.0 rating. He is also a serial entrepreneur; his ventures include Honest Tea, Kombrewcha, and Real Made Foods. A graduate of MIT, a Rhodes Scholar, and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, Barry earned his doctorate at Oxford University. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 55:36.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Barry Nalebuff.Split The Pie – A Radical New Way To Negotiate.Mission in a Bottle.The Art of Strategy.Thinking Stra tegically.Introduction to Negotiation course.Follow Barry on LinkedIn.Follow Barry on Twitter.

This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #814 – Host: Mitch Joel.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #607

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: 

The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now – The Atlantic. “Ian Bogost’s latest piece perfectly describes what the Internet is becoming. ‘Before software ate the world,’ he observes, ‘finance already had.’ If the first version of the web was about marketization and the second, monetization then the third is about securitization. ‘The golden promise of Web3… is that every aspect of human life, as recorded by computers, will be collateralized.’ Yikes.” (Alistair for Hugh). Deathclock . “I was expecting a series of questions and actuarial tables. Nope. This is just a simple visualization of your remaining time, in weeks. With all the chaos in politics and a million tiny interruptions, here’s a simple reminder. Seriously considering making this my default browser page.” (Alistair for Mitch). Mick Jones – Train In Vain – Isabela Cordaro – YouTube . “Mick Jones, punk legend and songwriter from The Clash, ‘the only band that matters,’ drinking a can of Stella, and playing a quiet Train in Vain solo to a crowd of 30 or so at the Rock n Roll Library in Portobello Road, London, and loving every minute of it.” (Hugh for Alistair). Mystical Photographs Taken Inside a Cello, Double Bass & Other Instruments – Open Culture . “Amazing photos from inside musical instruments.” (Hugh for Mitch). It’s Not Your Fault You’re a Jerk on Twitter – Wired . “We need to be careful with this article. We need people to still be responsible for the things that they say and do. Calling this ‘polarizing times’ is really a muted way of saying that the world has gone nuts… and we don’t even know who the nuts are anymore (hint: it could be you! It could be me!). So, is this all social media’s fault? Is this a function of politics? Are we all still in this low depressive haze from the pandemic? How are your nerves these days? Mine are, admittedly, frayed. So… we need to be able to look within and better understand both why so many things are triggering us and making us want to tweet about it. We also have to make some tough decisions about cancel culture too. Are we just going to be full-on accusatory and burn it all down, or will we accept that humans make mistakes (sometimes big and bad ones) and – with that – not every crime deserves the death penalty… or does it?” (Mitch for Alistair).  In Defense of Slow Reading – Book Riot . “At one point during the pandemic, I couldn’t bring myself to read a book. It was just too… much. I don’t know why. When that mood shifted, I found myself trying to race through books (as if I had some kind of goal to catch-up with), and then something shifted again. I decided to slow down. Like… really… slow… down. It helped. A lot. I can’t recommend it enough. So, instead of reading nothing or trying to race through a book you have been meaning to read, just slow down. Read a page or two.. here and there. Trust me… it makes it all the more satisfying… If we’ve had slow food movements and more, why not slow reading?” (Mitch for Hugh).

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Sucharita Kodali On The Future Of Retail And Consumer Behavior – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #813 of Six Pixels of Separation is now live and ready for you to listen to.

When I think of retail and the state of eCommerce, I’m always curious what Sucharita Kodali is thinking. As Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester, Sucharita is a leading expert on eCommerce, multichannel retail, consumer behavior, and trends in the online shopping space. In her research (you can get a taste of it right here), Sucharita covers such consumer-oriented topics as eCommerce forecasting and trends, merchandising best practices, conversion optimization, and social computing in the retail world. Prior to Forrester, Sucharita was the director of marketing at Saks Fifth Avenue, where she managed the customer acquisition, retention, and market research efforts for the $2 billion luxury retailer’s online channel. Sucharita holds a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Enjoy the conversation…

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via Apple Podcast or whatever platform you may choose): Six Pixels of Separation #813.

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SPOS #813 – Sucharita Kodali On The Future Of Retail And Consumer Behavior

Welcome to episode #813 of Six Pixels of Separation.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #813 – Host: Mitch Joel. When I think of retail and the state of eCommerce, I’m always curious what Sucharita Kodali is thinking. As Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester, Sucharita is a leading expert on eCommerce, multichannel retail, consumer behavior, and trends in the online shopping space. In her research (you can get a taste of it right here), Sucharita covers such consumer-oriented topics as eCommerce forecasting and trends, merchandising best practices, conversion optimization, and social computing in the retail world. Prior to Forrester, Sucharita was the director of marketing at Saks Fifth Avenue, where she managed the customer acquisition, retention, and market research efforts for the $2 billion luxury retailer’s online channel. Sucharita holds a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 1:00:07.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Sucharita Kodali.Forrester.A taste of Sucharita’s latest research.Follow Sucharita on LinkedIn.Follow Sucharita on Twitter.

This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #813 – Host: Mitch Joel.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #606

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: 

QI Versus Moon Landing Conspiracies – QI – YouTube. “There’s a lot of misinformation in the world today, and watching headlines here at home (truck convoys) and elsewhere (Rogan on Spotify), it’s clear that we’re trying to figure out what ‘true’ means in a world where everyone’s entitled to their own facts. To the rescue, Stephen Fry and the crew at QI. Sometimes the explanations are obvious, simple, boring, and bad for ratings. ‘We are in trouble as a species if people refuse to believe in things that they couldn’t actually do themselves,’ points out David Mitchell.” (Alistair for Hugh). A 19-year-old built a flight-tracking Twitter bot. Elon Musk tried to pay him to stop – Protocol . “If access to ‘alternative facts’ and a mistrust of anything we can’t test for ourselves is one of the ailments of the modern world, then the shift from broadcast—expensive, one-to-many communications—to anycast, where everyone can share anything with anyone else, is another massive shift. Information that was once public (but in the domain of specialists) like flight tracking is now easy to share. Is this extortion? Or simply publishing? Existing privacy law is going to have a hard time working this one out.” (Alistair for Mitch). Holding in the deep: what Canada wants to do with its decades-old pileup of nuclear waste – The Narwhal . “It’s hard to imagine de-carbonizing the energy economy to address climate change, without embracing nuclear. The problem with nuclear energy — other than the occasional meltown — is what we do with the waste. Canada wants to bury it in the Canadian shield.” (Hugh for Alistair). English Island Seeks a Landlord-King Who Likes Solitude, Seals and Beer – Yahoo! News . “Bored of your job? Your life? Want to be a king? Do you like rain and being alone? I might have a solution for you.” (Hugh for Mitch). Thinking Out Loud – Backlash Against Joe Rogan and Spotify – The Daily Show – YouTube . “I, stupidly, responded to a tweet that Adam Grant posted the other day about journalism, free speech, and the general state of media. While Adam’s post was opaque in content, the context was squarely aimed at the current Joe Rogan and Spotify situation. I quickly deleted the tweet. Why? I don’t feel like arguing in 280 characters, but – more importantly – it doesn’t really matter what I post, because the left and/or the right will immediate decide which ’side’ I am on. It’s frustrating. With that, I think this Trevor Noah clip provides context to a world that I would prefer to see. A world where you can like an individual, but not always agree with them. A world where people can make a mistake and have their apologies be accepted. A world where we don’t just look at a moment in time, but a body of work. A world where the context is as important as the content. A person can dream…” (Mitch for Alistair). Is There A Market For Saving Local News? – The New Yorker . “In the early days of the Internet and social media, I would write about the potential for local news. I figured that if everyone was focused on Google and Facebook, there might be a smart play for some local entrepreneurs (think real estate agents and others) to swoop in and buy up the local media channels (or build their own). To a degree, this has happened. Facebook is a grand example of many local private news groups that are run by people like stay-at-home parents or a real estate agent. There’s many opportunities and issues with this. Now, let’s put that aside and look at this article. What do I believe? Without local news, local libraries and more, we will lose our connections to our neighbors, be less informed about our lives, and get further trapped in the current political and big media echo chambers. It all starts at our front doors. Keep local news alive and thriving… please.” (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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Mike Levine From Triumph On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Mike Levine 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 #86 – Mike Levine.

Who is Mike Levine ?

One of the foundational rock bands that made me love the genre was Triumph. The rock n’ roll machine that is this Canadian hard rock trio formed in 1975, but it wasn’t until they played at 1983’s amazing three-day US Festival (on the “Metal Day”) that I fell madly deeply in love with them. In 1985, the band released an album called, Thunder Seven, and the subsequent tour became my first-ever live arena concert. Lights! Pyros! Wailing guitars! Sing-along choruses! Triumph did everything in a big way. Mike Levine has been holding down the bass fort (along with keyboards and backing vocals) since day one. Along with drummer/singer Gil Moore and guitarist/singer Rik Emmett, the band has charted an incredible career spanning 16 albums, 18 gold and 9 platinum awards. They were inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame in 2007, into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2008, and into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2019. There is a documentary, Triumph – Rock & Roll Machine, that is on the way, as Mike reflects on a musical career that spans almost half of a century. Talk about some real ‘Magic Power’! Enjoy the conversation…

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.

Listen in:  Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #86 – Mike Levine.

Groove – Episode #86: Mike Levine by No Treble

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Michael Bungay Stanier On Doing Something That Matters – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #812 of Six Pixels of Separation is now live and ready for you to listen to.

He’s best known for his book, The Coaching Habit, which has sold over a million copies and has thousands of 5-star reviews online. Michael Bungay Stanier helps people be a force for change. He founded Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that helps organizations move from advice-driven to curiosity-led. They’ve trained hundreds of thousands of managers to be more coach-like and their clients range from Microsoft to Gucci. He left Australia about 30 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University… where his only significant achievement was falling in love with a Canadian… which is why he now lives in Toronto, having spent time in London and Boston. Balancing out these moments of success, he was banned from his high school graduation for “the balloon incident”… was sued by one of his law school professors for defamation… and his first published piece of writing was a Harlequin Romance-esque story involving a misdelivered letter… and called The Male Delivery. He’s also the author of, Do Great Work, The Advice Trap, and recently published, How To Begin – Start Doing Something Matters, which is a nine step process to help people find their Worthy Goal, commit, and cross the threshold to begin. Enjoy the conversation…

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via Apple Podcast or whatever platform you may choose): Six Pixels of Separation #812.

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SPOS #812 – Michael Bungay Stanier On Doing Something That Matters

Welcome to episode #812 of Six Pixels of Separation.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #812 – Host: Mitch Joel. He’s best known for his book, The Coaching Habit, which has sold over a million copies and has thousands of 5-star reviews online. Michael Bungay Stanier helps people be a force for change. He founded Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that helps organizations move from advice-driven to curiosity-led. They’ve trained hundreds of thousands of managers to be more coach-like and their clients range from Microsoft to Gucci. He left Australia about 30 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University… where his only significant achievement was falling in love with a Canadian… which is why he now lives in Toronto, having spent time in London and Boston. Balancing out these moments of success, he was banned from his high school graduation for “the balloon incident”… was sued by one of his law school professors for defamation… and his first published piece of writing was a Harlequin Romance-esque story involving a misdelivered letter… and called The Male Delivery. He’s also the author of, Do Great Work, The Advice Trap, and recently published, How To Begin – Start Doing Something Matters, which is a nine step process to help people find their Worthy Goal, commit, and cross the threshold to begin. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 57:40.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Michael Bungay Stanier.How To Begin – Start Doing Something Matters.The Coaching Habit.Do Great Work.Follow Michael on LinkedIn.Follow Michael on Instagram.Follow Michael on Twitter.

This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #812 – Host: Mitch Joel.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #605

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: 

Everyone’s going to the moon—a new space race – The Economist. “The Economist‘s Babbage podcast is a good listen, and this episode about the new moon race was particularly informative. I did not know how many organizations were headed there; nor, for example, that non-spacefaring nations want compensation for its use (since it’s supposed to be for all humans). Nor was I aware that part of the US exploration plan is to have a private contractor dig up a shovel of regolith, take a photo, and sell ownership of the now-claimed lunar surface to NASA. Seems more like a NFT, but apparently that’s how we do things now. Well worth a listen.” (Alistair for Hugh). Tech and the fine art of complicity – Knight Foundation . “Artists help us understand the zeitgeist of modern times, and contemporary art is often algorithmic and interactive. But when artists use the same technologies that totalitarians deploy against their victims, or make pretty things from tech that marginalizes our most vulnerable, are they complicit? The always thoughtful Jer Thorp wrote this piece for the Knight Foundation a while back, but I only just came across it. Mitch, as someone who spans tech and culture, I immediately thought you’d find it interesting.” (Alistair for Mitch).  Revolutionary Montreal mechanism makes upright pianos sound like grand pianos – Montreal Gazette . “Not sure whether this sounds as cool as it sounds, but a Montreal piano maker has come up with a technology that makes a stand-up piano sound like a grand piano.” (Hugh for Alistair). Is Old Music Killing New Music? The Atlantic . “At my team’s 2021 holiday Zoom party, we played musical bingo, and the first ten or so songs that were played, I’d never heard before. Didn’t even recognize the artists either. It turns out that much of the music wasn’t even new, coming from ten years ago or so. When songs were ~3 years old, I knew them (sort of). I attribute this strange thing to having kids: from kids age 0-6 everything just stopped for me as far as paying attention to music. Then, my kids got older, life settled down, my kids started listening to music themselves, and I got exposed to more recent stuff, and I started seeking out new music myself again. But, there is just SO much out there. Regularly I discover something ‘new,’ and realize the album was released in 2011. Apparently I’m not alone, and while there is just a huge amount of new music coming out, it’s getting a smaller and smaller portion of the attention.” (Hugh for Mitch). How Discord became the “Soho House of Web 3.0” – Vogue Business . “While Clubhouse was getting so much attention during the first few waves of the pandemic, I found myself pointing out that Discord has many (and more) interesting features in the social audio space. As the entire Web3 world evolves, it seems like creators are agreeing with me. What was once a place for gaming and collectible nerds to gather, hang, connect and chat is now evolving into a core technology for the creator economy. So, if you’re looking for the next ‘what’s next’ in social platforms, it may already be here… and it’s Discord…” (Mitch for Alistair). Writing books is not really a good idea – The Novelleist . “Is it worth it to write a book? Do authors make any money? Do books sell? How many copies? Here’s a really long piece about the reality of book writing and publishing. And, if you’re looking for an idea to catch an audience, you may need to think a little bit about how the book publishing industry has been disrupted… and where that audience may be sourcing the next big idea. With that, I think we would all agree that writing (and publishing) a book still looks and feels very sexy.” (Mitch for Hugh).

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

Are you interested in what’s next? How to decode the future? I publish between 2-3 times per week and then the Six Pixels of Separation Podcast comes out every Sunday. Feel free to subscribe (and tell your friends): 

On Advertising Models, Targeted Advertising And Brands Podcasting

Advertising is changing more than we know it. 

Look no further than the conversations that we’ve had in the podcast below. 
There is a pressure for Netflix to start advertising on the platform.
I believe this won’t work for a myriad of reasons…
Customers will probably rescind their paying memberships, to endure commercials for a free option.
This won’t salvage their current challenges, in relation to how the public market see them.
With that, Netflix continues to grow (just not at the pace that the public markets would like).
220 million-plus subscribers. Millions of new subscribers in the past quarter.
It’s still not enough.

I say: NO ADS ON NETFLIX!

They already have a huge base of consumers that are willing to pay a monthly fee for access to their library of content.
This monthly fee is similar to the cost of one adult admission to a movie theater.

What can Netflix do? 

Think premium models.
There are boundless opportunities for them:

Consumer generated content (or, embracing this new creator economy).Live events.Pay Per View.Sporting events.Domestic content that can be obtained and streamed into other regions.Streaming conferences and other business events.

I could go on and on…

When you have paying consumers who love what you’re doing, give them more options to buy and remain loyal.

There’s much more to it…

This, and other current topics (driven by the questions above) were discussed along with Saul Colt (The Idea Integration Company), Liz Mayer (The Partnering Group) and host Bob Knorpp (always a good human) on the very excellent BeanCast Podcast (which I’ve been fortunate to be a guest on in the past). I don’t know what it is about BeanCast, Bob Knorpp and these other panelists, but there is always “something in the water” when we record these conversations that brings out a lot of stimulating ideas and insights (and some friendly disagreements too!).

Are you ready for this deep dive into the world of media and marketing? Here is: BeanCast #660 – Forcing DJs To Lie.

For about an hour, we discussed and debated the following topics:

Will Netflix start showing ads?Are there any reasons for brands to use targeted advertising anymore?Should brands start their own podcasts?Why did YouTube stop their YouTube Originals programming?

Take a listen and jump into the fray…

Mitch Joel · The BeanCast Podcast #660 – Forcing DJs To Lie

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