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🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Can you hack it?
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.
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0:00.0 | Hey it's Seth, and this is an akimbo announcement. |
0:08.8 | I know I've been gone for a while, I've missed you. I've been writing for a while I've missed you I've been writing my new book this is strategy |
0:16.3 | comes out in October 2024 right at the end of the month at a local bookstore near you. |
0:23.2 | Starting in September, we will be back with new episodes |
0:28.4 | based on the audiobook, based on the Udome |
0:32.4 | Strategy Course, and a special Q&A series where you can |
0:38.2 | volunteer to go over your strategy as part of the show. If you'd like to share your and press the appropriate button and we will be in touch. |
0:54.0 | Thanks for holding on, thanks for the work you do. |
0:57.0 | Keep making a ruckus. |
0:59.0 | We'll see you at the end of September. |
1:01.0 | Back in the day, computer monitors were big and heavy and expensive. |
1:08.0 | And if you left them on all night with your word processing screen open, you would burn in the phosphors and pretty soon |
1:18.8 | your monitor would be useless. |
1:21.6 | Then in 1989, Berkeley software introduced After Dark, which turned your screen, |
1:29.2 | if you had a Mac, into a series of flying toasters, winged flying toasters that would dance up and down back and forth across your black screen. |
1:42.0 | Hey, it's Arov, and this is a special archived episode of A Kimbo. |
1:50.0 | Flying Toasters is a piece of software. Flying Toasters screen savers is a choice. You can either buy it or not buy it. It was a hack to the operating system. It allowed a software company |
2:06.4 | to go into your computer and make it better if that's what you wanted. We have countless pieces of software on our operating systems. |
2:16.4 | And if you buy a piece of software that runs in Windows, it's probably not going to |
2:21.0 | easily run on your Mac and vice versa. The operating system is a series of rules, |
2:27.0 | approaches, ways that software can work. And if you're going to create an operating system you have a lot of responsibility |
2:35.8 | if you are living inside an operating system working with one it pays to be able to see it. |
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