The Miser
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Midroll Media
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
And the magic of sharing ideas
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 | Alright, with fingers on buzzers, let's see who can first identify this scientist. |
| 0:07.7 | He built some early vacuum tubes enabling Robert Boyle to do his groundbreaking work. |
| 0:13.8 | He was one of the first people to describe the rotations of the planet's Mars and Jupiter. |
| 0:20.0 | He came up with some of the basic hypotheses of gravity. |
| 0:24.9 | In optics, he did groundbreaking work in light refraction. |
| 0:29.4 | He had important things to say about the development of calculus. |
| 0:35.0 | And he was one of the first people to argue that fossils were actually remnants of creatures |
| 0:39.7 | that lived a long time ago and wrote controversial papers about how old the Earth actually is. |
| 0:46.8 | If you guessed Robert Huck with an E at the end, you're better at the history of science |
| 0:53.0 | than I am. |
| 0:54.4 | Hey, it's Seth. |
| 0:56.7 | And this is a Kimbo. |
| 1:04.1 | We'll be back in a second to talk about being a miser. |
| 1:07.4 | But first, here's a message from our sponsor. |
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