This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Covell, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

I have to read something from Seth Godin.

I think this is great.

I put it on my blog, but it's the incessant search for the new, new thing.

Today, an internet video or an investment philosophy or a political moment might last for weeks or even a few days.

It's not unusual for a movie or a book

or even a TV series to come and go before most people notice it. Neophilia has fundamentally

changed the culture. The result is there's an increasing desire, almost a panic for something new.

Yesterday was a million years ago and tomorrow is already here.

The rush for the new continues to increase and it's now surpassing our ability to satisfy

it.

When that need can't be filled, which is not surprising if you think about it, and we're

inclined to declare that it's the end, the end of new ideas, the end of progress, the end of

everything that's interesting.

It's been a week or two watching TED videos and once you catch up, you might find yourself

saying, sure, but what's new now? If you're in the business to making a new thing,

the churn may be an opportunity because it's easier now than ever to send up a hit up

the pop charts, whatever sort of pop you make. But it comes

at a price, which is that it won't last and you'll quickly have to go back and make another one.

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