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🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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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 | About 275,000 people live in my old hometown of Buffalo, New York. |
0:05.6 | If you count the metropolitan area, it's just over a million. |
0:10.0 | One of the richest owners of an NFL team, |
0:13.6 | somebody that Forbes magazine says has more than five billion dollars, |
0:19.5 | wants the city of Buffalo to pony up half a billion dollars, |
0:24.5 | or about five hundred dollars a person to build a new stadium for him. |
0:30.0 | In Orchard Park, New York. |
0:32.0 | Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
0:41.3 | We'll be back in a second to talk about just how easy it is |
0:44.9 | to game some systems. |
0:46.7 | But first, here's a message from our sponsor. |
0:51.5 | This is Grant Sanders. Money is not the solution to every problem. |
0:55.2 | Take, for example, the island of Nantucket where I live. |
0:58.4 | There's a lot of wealth here, but we also have many difficult social issues to solve. |
1:02.9 | And that's why I created the Nantucket Owners Manual, |
1:05.6 | a guide to leaving the island better than we found it. |
1:08.4 | The Owners Manual is a peer-reviewed publication using digital technology |
1:12.4 | to get ideas out into the community. |
1:15.0 | My hope is to use it as a blueprint to create something called the Community Owners Manual, |
1:19.7 | so we can guide others to solve problems in their communities. |
1:23.5 | It's a passion project. It does have a Patreon page, |
1:26.8 | and you can learn more at nantucketownersmanual.com. |
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