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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Fueling the Engines of Division

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

How many edges are too many?


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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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Clearfield Public Library in Williamsville, New York was a great place to fall in love

0:05.4

with books.

0:06.7

If you walked in and asked a friendly librarian about, say, science fiction, she would walk

0:12.0

you over to a section that started with Asimov and ended with Zalazny.

0:18.8

And if you were a diligent reader, it would take you about two years to work your way through

0:22.8

it.

0:23.8

Hey, it's Seth.

0:26.0

And this is a Kimbo.

0:30.0

We'll be back in a minute to talk about the algorithms of division.

0:37.0

But first, here's a message from our sponsor.

0:41.3

Sometimes, it seems like if you want to start a business, you need a rich uncle or a bank

0:46.5

or a VC.

0:47.8

But that's not true.

0:49.5

Some of the greatest projects of all time have been bootstrapped, built with a different

0:54.6

model.

0:55.9

The bootstrapper's workshop is back from a Kimbo.

0:58.5

You can find out all the details at a Kimbo.com slash go.

1:03.2

It's a chance to build the project that you've dreamed up to find independence to make

1:07.2

a difference.

1:08.8

You can be a bootstrapper, but it helps to know the best practices.

1:13.2

I hope you'll check it out at Kimbo.com slash go.

1:18.4

The Clearfield Public Library is a fine metaphor for the way media used to work.

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