Since my computer crashed, I have yet to recover quite a few “summaries” of Seth Godin’s blog posts. Some of them can be found here.
However, at some point, I started over. Here’s what I’ve got so far. The occasional comment from yours truly sneaks in, now and then.
Seth Godin “Summaries”
Amazon is the last one.
They are probably the last huge company where hundreds of thousands of people will be surveilled, measured and ordered to follow the rule book.
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The method is not to count keystrokes or other false proxies of productivity.
Instead, the opportunity is to offer significance.
[Editor’s note: We can only hope.]
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This page intentionally left blank has a long history.
I thought it was an IBM thing from the 1960s, but I was off by a thousand or more years.
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Of course, as we race to fill in every moment with swiping, surfing and clicking, it’s easy to forget that we’re allowed to leave some blank spaces. In fact, not just allowed, but if we want to live well, required.
And it gets even easier if we announce (to ourselves and perhaps to others), that we’ve done it on purpose.
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But creating something that’s chatoyant–that shifts in the light, that changes as we experience it… that’s a fascinating and useful project.
[Editor’s note: Guess we all need to start creating amazing GIFs. Then NFT them. Better yet, produce a TikTok featuring a disco ball.]
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The best way forward might be to take a few steps back.
[Editor’s note: What happened to move fast and break things? Hmm?]
PS: Nice cartoon!
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A certain kind of trust is no longer useful. Selfish hustlers are going to be one of the first big winners in the AI race, abusing systems that were built on traditional ideas of identity and responsibility.
Then what?
This is a fine moment to start taking the question seriously.
[Editor’s note: I think we may be well past that fine moment.]
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I think five of these will do for now. 🙂