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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Why is software so bad?

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Plenty of blame to go around...



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

40 years ago I drove a brown Fiat strata, perhaps one of the 10 worst cars ever made.

0:10.5

It went 0 to 60 in about 19 seconds. It got about 20 miles to the gallon. The backseat was remarkably uncomfortable. It handled poorly and it was really ugly.

0:24.0

Today, for about the same number of inflation adjusted dollars,

0:29.0

I drive a Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid.

0:33.7

It gets 199 miles to the gallon.

0:37.7

It goes 0 to 60 just as fast as I need it to.

0:41.3

It's super safe, and the backseat is quite comfortable.

0:45.0

Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. We'll be back in a second after this message from our sponsor.

1:01.6

Imagine walking your child to school each day.

1:05.0

Now imagine that you live in a rural area

1:08.0

and part of walking your child to school means crossing a dangerous river. That scenario is the real experience of

1:16.3

Imundu. Imundu is a seven-year-old girl who lives in Rwanda. She leaves home at

1:22.1

six a.m. for school with her dad and crossing the river for

1:25.6

them meant wading through it. Until last year if the river was flooded,

1:30.7

Amunu and her father would be forced to turn around and she would miss her opportunity

1:35.8

for education.

1:37.9

Stay with us and later in this episode we'll share the rest of Amundu's story.

1:43.0

I don't really want to talk about cars today.

1:47.0

I don't really want to talk about cars today.

1:52.0

I want to talk about software and I want to talk about why software is so bad.

1:59.0

I developed my first computer game as a hobby in 1976 when I was in high school and I was super

2:06.4

fortunate in the early 80s to do it professionally.

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