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🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Seth talks about his new book
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.
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0:00.0 | Massive economic and social revolutions didn't use to come around very often. |
0:07.0 | Things like the invention of government or the book were rare occurrences and it was unlikely that you were going to live through one. |
0:16.4 | Well we've had four in the last hundred years. |
0:21.4 | Hey it's Seth! And this is a Kimbo. |
0:26.0 | We'll be back in a second after this message from our sponsor, Lenovo. |
0:36.0 | My story? It starts over 50 years ago with my father. |
0:40.0 | My dad was a German immigrant who learned the art of violin making over half a century ago in Europe. |
0:46.0 | His dream was always to open up his own store, his own shop, and to share the gift of music with others. |
0:52.0 | My dream has always been to carry on my father's legacy, |
0:55.2 | to spread his love of music, and to make music accessible to everyone. My name is Paul Pryor, |
1:00.9 | and my small business is Peter Pryor and Sons Violins, a shop that's been running since 1965. |
1:07.0 | But when you've been in business as long as we have, there are things you have to do to keep up with the times. |
1:12.0 | Stay tuned to hear the rest of my story and |
1:14.7 | to see what makes a difference for me in my small business. Four revolutions, really? Well, there |
1:20.1 | might have been more, but let's focus on these four. |
1:23.5 | The first one is a revolution in manufacturing, |
1:27.6 | the tail end of the industrial revolution. |
1:30.4 | The idea that we could make things, lots of things, complicated things, and that we could make |
1:36.6 | them faster and cheaper and much better with each passing year. The second revolution was the revolution of the computer, the |
1:46.6 | computer as calculator, as machine that could do math, the computer that could figure out how to get us to the moon and back, the computer |
1:56.9 | that could control a robot and make it so that car was even more perfect. The third revolution is computer as network. The idea |
2:07.9 | that that data over there can combine with this data over here into a shared database and let us know more than we ever |
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