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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Distribution and cultural destiny

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We get the world our media wants



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

620 years ago today, Johannes Gutenberg was born.

0:05.0

Of course, no one knows exactly when he was born,

0:09.0

because there weren't a lot of books to write things down in.

0:13.0

He fixed that problem and invented modern culture

0:17.2

as we know it.

0:18.8

Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.

0:23.0

We'll be back after this message from our featured nonprofit.

0:32.0

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0:33.0

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0:38.1

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0:44.8

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0:50.0

fostered positive outcomes. Resilient people have lower health costs, higher productivity

0:55.8

in the workplace, and healthier families and relationships.

1:00.3

Find out more at red Willow Learning.org.

1:04.0

I don't think there's any way to deny the fact that books and then magazines, newspapers,

1:11.0

radio, television, the internet, media changed the culture.

1:16.9

It changes the culture every day.

1:19.4

It changes the culture in ways large and small, mostly that we don't even notice. But the people who

1:25.3

make media they notice and they pay attention. What they pay attention to most of

1:31.8

all is how to make money.

1:34.0

And there are two ways to make money and both of them are related.

1:38.0

One is to sell advertising.

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