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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Seth Godin
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Akimbo is an ancient word, from the bend in the river or the bend in an archer's bow. It's become a symbol for strength, a posture of possibility, the idea that when we stand tall, arms bent, looking right at it, we can make a difference. Akimbo's a podcast about our culture…
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- 01How Did Software Change Over the Last 40 YearsWhy is software so bad?
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- 03Why Are Most Software Products Focused on SharingWhy is software so bad?
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- Pathfinding and failure
- Game Theory and the Infinite Game (E)
- How Big is Your Family?
- Don’t fear placebos (E)
- Problems
- Hitsville (E)
- Our beauty problem
- No such thing as writer's block (E)
- Clever Hans
- I see you (E)
- What you pay for
- Status roles (E)
- Stadium subsidies
- The Grand Opening
- The Discovery Channel
- The invisibility paradox
- Creating the conditions for change
- The ethnic aisle
- Seth and Debbie
- The order of that song
- The power of search
- Let’s kill all the whales
- The modern lemonade stand
- This time
- Podcast ads
- Leverage
- Enforcement and enrollment
- Making up your mind
- Help Wanted
- In search of the worst CEO
- The paradox of red lines
- Dancing with time
- Guitar strings
- Clubhouse
- Externalities
- Paul has a practice
- Make Hockey More Violent
- Gravity, evolution and ideas
- Telemedicine
- Happiness runs
- Money is a story
- White elephants and gifts
- Co-op advertising
- Expect Delays
- Status roles
- Confronting the Continuum
- Time keeps on slipping
- Untethered
- All Q&A episode
- No accounting for taste
- Project Debt
- Proof of stake
- Meta dialogue and placeholders
- What kind of dog do you have?
- Cranberries get sorted
- The Miser
- Big games
- Choice Theory
- The Rule of Three
- What’s the Office for?
- The river of time
- Compared to What
- A nation of clerks
- A Billion Dollar’s Worth of Words
- Getting stuck on a broken cycle
- Fueling the Engines of Division
- The practical ethics of the Jet Ski
- Fractions
- The Magnification of Small Differences
- Graphs and charts
- Apertures
- Your mileage may vary
- A complex of complexes
- Turning the ratchet
- Advertising built the world
- Helmet insights
- Rightsizing projects
- Upside down marginal cost
- Money for nothing?
- Modern Choice Theory
- Whale Hunting
- Sitting in judgment
- Entrepreneur’s guide to trademarks
- On direct advertising
- Please don’t litter
- On Monarchists
- The architecture of architecture
- Postage due
- Tim Toady
- Spirit of ecstasy
- The persistence of technology
- The talented mosquito
- Consolidation, Publishing
- Pay the Writer
- Queuing theory
- Lots of questions
- Paying for stamps
- A vote for books
- The pursuit of perfection
- A quantum theory of customers
- The Zoom Revolution
- The Game Theory of Carbon
- The New York Times Bestseller List
- Go invent something
- The Hedonic Treadmill
- Industry and its discontents
- Adversarial interoperability
- Ranked Choice Voting
- Alexander's Theorem of Professional Exceptionalism
- Is Seth real?
- Live at Catalyst 2010
- Micropayments Part 2
- Micropayments
- Levi Strauss
- The confusions
- Organized learning
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Help Wanted
- Everybody is irrational
- Season 7 opener
- Difficult conversations
- Living in surplus
- The Future of the Library
- Why TV is so bad
- Cheap placebos
- Monkey Selfies
- Leverage and gearing
- Creative destruction
- Curation
- The invisible hand of business models
- Don't Go
- Wheat and Taxes
- Marshmallows and privilege
- Belief and Engineering
- Sample size
- The Overton Window
- The gift economy
- Sportsmanship
- Surprise and Privacy
- Operating systems
- Show your work
- Live at the United Nations
- Season 5 QA Special
- Publishing is hard
- Selfish ideas
- Cohesion and commerce
- The free market has an enemy
- Opportunity cost
- The great pretender
- Bill Gates has a problem
- Patient capital
- Solving interesting problems
- The perils of mind reading
- Benefit of the doubt
- First comes carriage
- Don't be evil
- The Short List
- Meta
- What's in the fridge?
- Friction
- Artificial intelligence is neither
- The new modernity
- Enrollment and possibility
- Not really having this argument
- Systems thinking
- Of course they cheated
- Find the others
- Who is Banksy?
- Norms and rules
- The hype cycle
- Aravind
- BREATHE
- Car dealers and your future
- Fooled by spectrum
- Supple
- Synecdoche
- Pizza and sushi
- Math Class Is Hard
- Money Moves
- Moore’s law
- False Merit, Appearing Real
- Interoperability
- 5 monkeys
- Publish yourself QA
- Publish yourself
- Psephology and the science of voting
- The big sort
- White sculptures
- Why did the chicken cross the road?
- The chicken and the egg
- It's your turn
- Sauce and Godiva
- On dignity
- Going going gone
- How to get into a famous college
- Connect the dots
- Stop stealing dreams
- All rights reserved
- THIS IS MARKETING
- The wedding industrial complex
- Games matter
- Anthems, pledges and change
- Honest signals
- You're it
- The deletionists
- The spirit of the game
- Thrash now
- Your Bootstrapping Questions
- Every day is labor day
- Ignore sunk costs
- Shun the non-believers
- Your call (isn’t) very important to us
- Don't just Do Something, Stand There
- Distribution and cultural destiny
- The mesh
- This stinks
- Origin stories
- Juggling and bicycles
- Coincidence and grilled cheese
- Tips and gifts
- It’s not about the chocolate
- Blogs and Platforms and Permission
- Q&A, the season wrap up
- The long term
- Genius
- Networks and lockin
- Freelancers
- Let's Do It Live
- The Regular Kind
- They’re not trying to be creepy
- Quality and Wabi-Sabi
- Game Theory and the Infinite Game
- Don't fear placebos
- Hitsville
- No such thing (as writer's block)
- I see you
- Status roles
- The Grand Opening
- Trailer
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