Yes, apparently it can be done!
Even More Thoughts About Seth Godin
Here’s yet another in a series of thoughts I had while reading Seth Godin’s blog:
About “Effort”
Focus on things that matter when doing your work. Specifically, the quality of your work. Don’t waste time on shortcuts that lead to problems down the road, thus creating greater expense.
You can have it good, you can have it fast, or you can have it cheap. But you can’t have all three.
PS: I assume he meant “unusually high call volume”.
Here’s a link to the source.
About “An illusion of scale”
Bigger isn’t always better. More isn’t always enough.
To go really big, you need time, resources, and effort. Before you can do that, you need to know why you’re doing it. And quit wasting time doing stuff that does nothing for you. You or anyone else, for that matter.
Here’s a link to the source.
About “‘They were all bored to tears waiting to hear something they knew’”
New ideas are often misinterpreted as bad ones, I guess.
PS: But “Stairway to Heaven”? Have you not seen Wayne’s World?
Here’s a link to the source.
About “The test kitchen mindsets”
Quit agonizing over your click rates, your likes, your followers—the analytics. All of it.
Just do it and see if it works. If it fails, learn from that and keep going.
That’s the definition of an innovator.
PS: Reading this will not do the work for you. Writing it certainly hasn’t done it for me.
Here’s a link to the source.
About “What will you leave behind?”
Your desire and incentive to do a particular type of work will change over time. As you change and grow, you need to let go of old ways. However, even this new beginning will lead to another end.
PS: In twenty years, I might be dead.
Here’s a link to the source.
About “Afraid of afraid”
Don’t be afraid of being afraid. And don’t worry so much. If you aren’t afraid, you’re really not the brightest bulb paying attention to current events, are you?
Here’s a link to the source.
It’s Hard to Be the Domino
Here are some words to live by:
1. Did you mean it?
2. Can you defend it?
3. Did you say it with love?”
Here are some quotes:
“In a world that wants us to whisper, I choose to yell”
“When the world expects us to be silent, we choose to yell because getting uncomfortable can only guarantee our comfort.”
“People in systems count on our silence to keep us exactly where we are.”
“Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.”
“In a world that wants us to whisper, I choose to Yell!”
“comfort is overrated”
“Bridges that aren’t based on truth will collapse.”
“Being yourself can be a revolutionary act.”
“I’m a professional troublemaker.”
But some dominos fall … then just lie there. 🙂
Being a domino is HARD. Being a domino with dystonia is even fucking harder.
Listening to this speech isn’t enough, is it? That’s why I’m sharing it.
“I’m not going to let fear rule my life.”
And she’s only thirty? So young! Brava!
Lessons Learned from Seth Godin: Part Eight
These are just thoughts inspired by various posts from Seth Godin’s blog. He’s something of a marketing expert, certainly much more of one than myself. That’s become painfully clear.
About “The programmatic ask”
Don’t market on autopilot. Put yourself into it and be honest. Form relationships.
Fast, geeky, and slick is being innovative in the wrong way.
Here’s a link to the source.
PS: Oh, yeah. Seth totally hates Amazon! 🙂
About “Raining on your picnic (on your birthday)”
Quit taking others’ opinions so damn personally.
Grow the fuck up. And do the work.
Here’s a link to the source.
About “Gift cards, serial numbers and hard technology”
The Internet needs to be fixed. And let’s not forget how to be human.
And you got to read the whole thing, because Seth is a great storyteller, when he wants to be. And what he wrote made me laugh.
Here’s a link to the source.
About “Labor and value”
Let me put this in “writer” terms.
Amateur writers do it for themselves. Professional writers do it for others.
One is navel-gazing. The other is communication.
Here’s a link to the source.
About “Messing with Strathern’s Law”
It doesn’t matter how many people like you on Facebook or anywhere else on social media, if your only goal is to curry favor.
Ask yourself, “What are you really accomplishing?”
Here’s a link to the source.
About “Defending change (or the status quo)”
When deciding whether change is good, be rational and unaffected by emotional connections to the past.
And good luck with that, because Seth is as confused as anyone about how to do this.
Here’s a link to the source.
Any thoughts? Opinions? Anyone reading this? 🙂
