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🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Sharecropping doesn’t get you very far
Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.
You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the podcast at akimbo.link.
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0:00.0 | At the end of May, 2018, I moved my blog, I moved it to a new platform. |
0:07.8 | This is a little bit like moving to a new house, except it takes longer, it's more emotional, |
0:13.9 | and it's a lot more expensive. |
0:15.9 | Salut c'est John, The Glass Go On Ecos, et vous écoutez un épisode spécial des archives |
0:21.3 | d'Aquimbo. |
0:22.3 | To celebrate season 2, I thought we'd start off with |
0:29.9 | their presenting nonprofit instead of a sponsor, to find out more, visit charitywater.org. |
0:36.9 | And then a seven-year-old kid in Texas starts knocking on doors, and he's asking for his |
0:42.0 | age and dollars, $77, $777. |
0:45.9 | He raises 22 grand, and we said, wow, this is a big idea. |
0:50.9 | You know, everybody in the world could care about clean water. |
0:53.8 | Everybody in the world has a birthday every year, and we haven't enough stuff. |
0:58.3 | But if we could turn the birthday into a giving moment, into an unselfish day, our |
1:03.4 | birthdays so people could live longer and have birthdays. |
1:08.1 | Moving my blog is a metaphor for a lot of things about being found, about how ideas spread, |
1:14.6 | and about the passage of time in a fast-moving world, where the culture is driven by the internet, |
1:20.4 | and the internet is driven by the culture. |
1:24.3 | That's how I moved my blog was 16 years ago, when George W. Bush was president, when Alicia |
1:32.2 | Keys had her debut album, and when the bestseller list had names on it like James Patterson and Stephen |
1:40.1 | King. |
1:41.4 | So some things change, some things, not so much. |
1:45.8 | Before I had my blog on TaiPad, I used to deliver it by email, and I've been doing that |
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