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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 19 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 | Stop me if you've heard this one before |
0:02.8 | Jasper and Ann Marie are out for a hike in the Great North Woods and they notice as they turn a corner |
0:09.7 | That there's a very angry grizzly bear standing there the grizzly bear starts chasing them and they take off in a run |
0:18.0 | But after about 50 yards Jasper stops those down his backpack and starts putting on sneakers instead of hiking boots |
0:25.4 | Ann Marie is incredulous |
0:27.1 | She turns and she says what are you doing the grizzly is gaining on us |
0:32.5 | Jasper smiles and says yeah, I'm sorry, but I don't have to outrun the grizzly bear. I just have to outrun you |
0:40.6 | Hey, it's Seth and this is a Kimbo |
0:50.2 | We'll be back in a second to talk about mediocrity, but first here's a message from our sponsor |
0:58.0 | The African-American Marketing Association is a nonprofit created to galvanize black marketers across the world |
1:04.7 | We pride ourselves in providing resources and opportunities in order for our members to grow their career or their business |
1:11.3 | We've been established since 2019. We have over 400 members a mix of professionals |
1:17.5 | freelancers, entrepreneurs, agency owners |
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1:33.0 | Yes, it's really me and I'm really back with a new episode |
1:35.8 | I've got a new book coming out you can find out the details at Seth's top blog slash song and in this rant |
1:43.4 | I want to talk about mediocrity and how AI changes things |
1:50.6 | mediocrity and |
1:52.6 | competition are at the heart of how we can understand capitalism |
1:57.7 | But we often don't really understand what those words mean |
2:02.2 | mediocrity is just another word for average for standard for convenient for the regular kind |
2:10.5 | And scarcity scarcity helps us understand |
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