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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

The Zoom Revolution

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It’s bigger than it looks


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

More than a hundred years ago in one of the earliest episodes of the akimbo podcast, I jumped on the bandwagon about the telephone.

0:09.0

The telephone was still in its infancy. Most people weren't using it.

0:14.4

But I went on and on about how it was going

0:17.2

to transform the world as we know it.

0:20.3

Changing real estate, the way businesses worked, international relations, politics, media, and

0:27.0

eventually leading us to bulletin boards and the internet.

0:30.7

I'm back, I'm back to talk about another sea change one that is also easily minimized but

0:37.2

it's going to rework the fabric of our culture. Hey it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.

0:47.0

We'll be back in a second to talk about video conferencing, Zoom, and the future of everything.

0:57.0

But first, here's a message from our sponsor.

1:01.0

Get better clients. sponsor.

1:03.0

Get Better Clients.

1:05.0

There in three words is the strategy of any freelancer who wants to do better work.

1:10.0

Get better clients. You can't work more hours. work. harder, you will do better work, they will talk about you, you will get paid more, you will be

1:24.8

more proud of what you produce, how to get better clients.

1:30.0

I've been thinking about this for a long time and we have built a workshop just for you.

1:35.2

If you work for yourself, I really think you need to check it out.

1:38.8

It's a W.W. The Freelancers Workshop.com. It's not a bunch of videos. It's a workshop. You will work with

1:48.5

other freelancers working your way forward to figure out how to do this work that matters.

1:54.9

I hope you'll take a minute to check it out. The Freelancers Workshop.com.

1:59.5

We would love to have you join us.

2:06.9

Yes, I'm talking about Zoom. You've spent too much time on Zoom and the reason it feels like too much time is because it's enforced and it's not used properly.

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