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- An end to fully open networks | Seth's Blog
Sadly I suspect that Godin's correct on this count. The economics of a fully open network are difficult at "planet scale". His specific point: We’re going to need to create a cost…
- Blogs, traffic, and Google
- Attention and effort | Seth's Blog
- Avoiding the toxic status loop | Seth's Blog
The crazy thing is that social media doesn't even hide the status game. Your follower count and likes of all your posts are just right there. It is a pure status game, with…
- Working for advertisers | Seth's Blog
I love the way Godin frames running an ad supported business. It fundamentally puts you in conflict with so many things that your actual customers probably want. I really hope…
- Poison | Seth's Blog
- Notes to myself | Seth's Blog
- The four arcs | Seth's Blog
- Productivity, AI and pushback | Seth's Blog
- The thought that counts | Seth's Blog
- Who owns your words? | Seth's Blog
I shared this same sentiment in 2022 with Not your domain, not your words .
- Speed, creativity and AI | Seth's Blog
Great take from Godin on what may be achieved with creative output and AI.
- Clear ice | Seth's Blog
I absolutely love the idea of thinking about sleep as a Zamboni machine for your brain. Next time you can’t fall asleep, just visualize a Zamboni lumbering over the ice leaving…
- “I don’t learn that way” | Seth's Blog
Learn through play, not by watching.
- The defensive arrogance of TL;DR | Seth's Blog
Godin with another nugget of wisdom here. TL;DR is defensive. Not simply because it defends our time, but because it defends us from change and from lived experience. … When we…
- The drift to normal | Seth's Blog
Godin's struck a chord with me on this observation. As an organization grows in scale, the idiosyncrasy and distinctiveness that was originally informed by the taste of the…
- Customer satisfaction and tipping | Seth's Blog
Tammy and I have been noting how tipping is getting more complicated. With digital payment terminals everywhere prompts to tip are appearing everywhere. It is a mess, even when…
- When the committee decides | Seth's Blog
I love this quick post from Godin suggesting what drives committees making a decision. I haven't thought about it as detailed as he puts forward, but intuitively this aligns with…
- Project resistance | Seth's Blog
Godin reflecting on Steve Pressfield's concept of "Resistance", how it shows up, and how to approach it.
- ChatGPT for you | Seth's Blog
Godin presents a really interesting "system message" for ChatGPT to give you better results. I found it interesting to see what the specific directions were. Follow his advice and…
- The good news | Seth's Blog
- Project management | Seth's Blog
I like Godin's framing of a "project is a promise". Very good. The most exciting thing about professional project management is that it trades away excitement for systems thinking…
- Finding agency | Seth's Blog
Short essay differentiating freedom from agency .
- What’s a “techie”? | Seth's Blog
Godin attempts to define the term "techie", something a lot of people say but don't really specify what it really means. I'm going to argue that involves a combination of two…
- New decisions based on new information | Seth's Blog
It’s okay to change your mind.
- Leverage is brittle | Seth's Blog
Choosing and being careful about where you use leverage is important. It is also worth considering that not all forms of leverage are financial. The same concepts can apply to…
- Shields up | Seth's Blog
Godin wishing for a web that was not so full of "junk". Adblockers are one of the most popular innovations of the last few years. What I want is a junkblocker. A big button on my…
- Revisiting stamps for email | Seth's Blog
Reputation systems for email are really hard, and the fact that inbound email is free to the sender creates a foundational asymmetry. There have been various attempts to solve…
- The coming ubiquity | Seth's Blog
I think Godin is onto something here. But the real impact of AI isn’t going to be that it regularly and consistently does far better than the best human effort. The impact will be…
- Overconfidence and AI | Seth's Blog
Godin hits on a topic that I've been wondering about — why do people put so much trust, often unearned, in some forms of technology? OpenAI and ChatGPT are phenomenal, but it is…
- Amazon Smile gets a frown | Seth's Blog
I've used Amazon Smile from time-to-time over the years. To date, Amazon Smile has sent charities more than $500,000,000. That’s not a ‘donation’ of course, it’s simply an…
- Little screens and productivity
- Micropayments for content | Seth's Blog
Godin suggesting that a frictionless micropayment infrastructure is needed for the web. I agree completely. Payment is one of those foundational capabilities that we nee for the…
- Problems now (problems later)
Godin's writing strikes a chord sometimes, and this is one of those. Our story about the future is in the now, regardless of how far away the future is. All we can do with the…
- The smallest viable audience
I dig this advice from Godin. The strategy of the smallest viable audience doesn’t let you off the hook–it does the opposite. You don’t get to say, “well, we’ll just wait for the…
- The million-dollar gap
This is all playing out in front of our eyes still. And yet, more than a decade into this dramatic compression of the gap, big-time marketers and industry players are still acting…
- Who chooses?
Godin is hitting on a topic I think often about. Algorithms that decide what to show you must be designed with a goal. Choosing is a form of selection, of amplification and of…
- Personal velocity
I love this post from Godin and the analogy. But life isn’t a bike. It works fine if we take a moment and leave space for the person next to us to speak. Are you going fast…
- Generative hobbies
- The CEO of you | Seth's Blog
What decisions do you need to make?
- Kinds of projects | Seth's Blog
I like Godin's point here that there are a lot of different kinds of projects, and they have different outcomes. As our world gets more connected, the projects that change us are…
- Production values | Seth's Blog
The medium matters. Does the increase in drama, tension and fear that these production values create produce anything of value? Would it be possible to be an informed citizen…
- Identity and ideas | Seth's Blog
I have been thinking about identity some recently. When you work to improve yourself, change your habits, or otherwise explore new things you end up bouncing up against identity…
- Why the blockchain matters | Seth's Blog
Godin writes a very approachable explainer on blockchain technology and why it matters. And that’s the first reason that the blockchain matters—because there’s a chance that it…
- You can’t beat the algorithm | Seth's Blog
Godin with sage advice on seeking to leverage "the algorithm". We have a chance to do work we’re proud of, and to do it for people who care. And maybe we can do it in a way that…
- Identity is often used against us | Seth's Blog
There is nothing more vulnerable than identity change. Most of us will fight like our life depends on it to protect our identity. Sadly even if that identity is detrimental to…
- Fixing Zoom calls: Looking better and feeling better | Seth's Blog
I have highlighted a number of video conferencing setups, and this one hits on the usual things like using a DSLR camera, however this is the first time I've seen a beam splitter…
- The cataclysmic breakdown of networked systems | Seth's Blog
The more leverage you get in a system, the more impact there is to any one part of that system failing.
- Strategy and tactics and Powerpoint | Seth's Blog
Simple approach to building a more meaningful presentation. Love how simple Godin makes this. Overall question: Who is this presentation for? And the follow-up: What change are we…
- A simple 2 x 2 for choices | Seth's Blog
This type of thinking is used all the time in business, but I like the idea of applying Godin's framework to your personal projects and your whole GTD list of things. It might be…
- Shopping is not the same as buying — Seth's Blog
Shopping is still something that the online stores really struggle with. Searching, finding, and buying is straight forward and usually easier and better than in an offline space.…
- We like what we choose | Seth's Blog
Goden is typically short and to the point, but this one hit me a bit harder than I would have guessed. New research confirms that random choices lead to preferences, and then it…
- Your defining moment | Seth's Blog
An inspirational view from Seth Godin. Our work is what happens in all the moments. Leadership doesn’t simply appear when the script announces it does: it is the hard work of…
- Day trading emotions | Seth's Blog
Seth Godin again with a look at managing your emotions with THE PANDEMIC going on. I like the analogy of day trading here. Just as it’s almost impossible to make a profit as a day…
- Calm also has a coefficient | Seth's Blog
There is a lot of stuff out there to be anxious about. I like Seth Godin's read on thinking about calm too. And Twitter? Twitter has been engineered to maximize panic. Calm is…
- The conversation | Seth's Blog
Seth Godin's calling us to consider not just translating the exact same process that we have had in our office as we work remote, but instead think of how we can try something…
- Falling behind vs. streaks | Seth's Blog
I've been trying to use streaks to reinforce good habits. But it turns out that real progress comes not from measuring ourselves against everyone else’s pace, but in building…
- Quality and effort | Seth's Blog
- Business/busyness | Seth's Blog
A good reminder from Seth Godin to focus on value. Busy is not your job. Busy doesn’t get you what you seek. Busy isn’t the point. Value creation is. Measure it. 💯