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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Sharecropping doesn’t get you very far



Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 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 workshops at akimbo.com.


To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button. 



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0:00.0

At the end of May 2018, I moved my blog, I moved it to a new platform.

0:07.0

This is a little bit like moving to a new house, except it takes longer, it's more emotional and it's a lot more expensive.

0:16.0

Hey it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. To celebrate season two, I thought we'd start off with a presenting nonprofit instead of a sponsor.

0:31.2

To find out more, visit Charity Water.org.

0:35.0

And then a seven-year-old kid in Texas starts knocking on doors and he's asking for his

0:40.0

age and dollars.

0:41.0

77, 777. He, he raises 22 grand. And we said, wow, this is a big idea. You know,

0:49.4

everybody in the world could care about clean water. Everybody in the world has a

0:52.2

birthday every year.

0:55.0

We have enough stuff.

0:56.0

What if we could turn the birthday into a giving moment,

0:59.0

into an unselfish day, our birthdays so people can live longer and have birthdays.

1:06.0

Moving my blog is a metaphor for a lot of things about being found, about how ideas spread, and about the passage of time in a fast moving world where the culture is driven by the internet and the internet is driven by the culture.

1:21.0

The last time I moved my blog was 16 years ago when George W Bush was

1:28.6

president, when Alicia Keys had her debut album, and when the bestseller list had names on it like James

1:36.2

Patterson and Stephen King.

1:39.3

So some things change, some things not so much. Before I had my blog on TypePad I used to deliver it by

1:48.7

email and I've been doing that since the 1990s.

1:53.0

What I discovered then, what I wrote a book about,

1:55.7

is the simple idea that anticipated, personal,

2:00.5

and relevant messages are more likely to resonate with people than spam.

2:07.0

Day by day, week by week, I built up a list of people who wanted to hear from me, who wanted to get an email newsletter from me, back

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