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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

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Looking for the pre-steal


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

On the cold winter night in January 2020, I was walking through a supermarket parking lot,

0:06.0

and I saw there on the ground next to a puddle a beautiful picture of a tropical fish. I bent down to pick it up. It turned out to be the label from a DVD.

0:18.0

The DVD was a home aquarium in HD, less from 2010 you would put the DVD into your DVD

0:27.8

player and watch fish swim back and forth and back and forth.

0:35.0

And standing there in the cold wondering how a 10 year old DVD label was sitting in a parking lot,

0:42.0

I remembered that in 1987, I launched the first aquarium on VHS.

0:50.0

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

0:57.0

We'll be back in a second to talk about tropical fish, but mostly invention. But first, here's

1:07.4

a message from our sponsor.

1:09.4

Hey, it's Seth, we need your help. Our culture needs your help. Marketing is the

1:18.9

act of making things better by making better things. Marketing is what we call it when you bring your work to the world in a way the world can engage with it.

1:28.0

And the marketing seminar is back.

1:30.0

It's back for another session with more than 10,000 alumni so far. It is the most successful,

1:37.2

most effective workshop of its kind. Check out the Marketing seminar.com for more details.

1:44.4

We would love to have you join us.

1:47.8

Yes, we all know that the Digital Aquarium

1:50.9

changed the world.

1:52.4

That around the world.

1:52.8

That around the world, millions and millions of people right now,

1:56.2

are trying to tear themselves away from their TV sets.

1:58.8

They're flat screen 4K expensive TV sets where they are watching tropical fish swim back and forth in a coral reef.

2:07.5

And they have me to thank for it.

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