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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Cybertruck

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

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.

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



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Transcript

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0:00.0

there's a difference it seems between optimism and hope and the reality distortion field.

0:08.0

Sometimes it gets out of hand and sometimes we need to know enough and have the maturity

0:13.5

to put it away and get back to work. Hey, it's Seth and this is a Kimbo.

0:25.5

We'll be back in a second to talk about the Cybertruck, but first, here's a message.

0:30.0

From our sponsor.

0:32.7

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0:37.2

but the best charities can be over a hundred times more impactful.

0:41.2

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0:45.2

a life without donation. If you want to find out the best ways to make your charitable donation

0:50.2

go further, go to GivingWhatWeCan.org. I joined the GivingWhatWeCan community over five years

0:56.0

ago, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. If you want to do the same,

0:59.8

that website was GivingWhatWeCan.org.

1:03.9

I got this question the other day about something that I had said about Tesla and their Cybertruck.

1:10.8

Hi, Seth. My name's Tillak Duda, and I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1:16.6

I wanted to ask a question about something that I felt was a bit of a apparent contradiction

1:23.0

in some of the things that you've talked about previously. This is an opinion I think you shared

1:29.5

in a recent podcast that you were asked to be a guest on. It had to do with this Tesla Cybertruck

1:37.0

design, and in the podcast, your opinion I think that you shared was that you felt that Tesla had

1:42.6

made a big mistake with their design of the Tesla Cybertruck, because it failed to take into

1:49.8

account what pickup truck owners wanted from a pickup truck. It was surprising to me to hear

2:00.5

that opinion, because to me, when I first heard about the Tesla Cybertruck, I think I even

2:05.6

made a connection between the design, the crazy design, and the idea of the purple cow.

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