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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What happens when the operators aren’t standing by any longer?



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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Transcript

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0:00.0

To save you time later in the call, please enter the primary cardholder's nine-digit Social Security

0:06.5

number.

0:07.5

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

0:21.0

The jobs up today in the future require digital, technical, and social emotional fluency.

0:26.0

Students are prepared in these skills today because schools aren't equipped to keep up with the rapid innovations occurring in our economy.

0:33.4

At Honor Code, we provide remote and in-person teacher trainings to schools after-school

0:37.4

organizations to bring employer-line computer science and social-emotional learning skills

0:42.0

into the general K-12 classroom.

0:44.0

Since our inception, we have worked with organizations including the Boys and Girls Club,

0:47.6

purpose-built communities, and junior achievement to train over 50 instructors who have trained over 3,000 students.

0:53.2

For more information on how to bring Honor Code training to a school or after school organization

0:56.8

in your area, visit our website at www.

1:00.0

Honor Code

1:03.0

helping our schools build the capacity for tomorrow's world.

1:07.0

Corporations have always tried to influence the culture.

1:11.0

They've got money to spend and a big upside if they can change the way

1:15.3

we think or act or behave. And for a really long time the way corporations did this is

1:21.4

they spent money on media, they spent money on media they spent money on products but

1:26.2

then they were done it was the retailer who sold you something if that thing you

1:31.0

bought didn't work you went back to the retailer to talk to them about it.

1:36.0

There was a huge disconnect between the people who made it and the people who sold it.

1:42.0

Of course this wasn't true for the first 10,000 years of farming civilization.

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