What am I worth?
So art is generous, if there isn't a gift it's not art it's commerce, commerce is, I have an English Muffin, you have two dollars, we swap, we're even, no connection is made, I owe you nothing, you...
View ArticleHumans vs. Machines
Seth: I think we're really early in it, I mean we had a thousand years of doing it the other way -- the other by-hand way, right? The challenge is not challenging greyhounds with greyhounds. The...
View ArticleSquidoo
Seth: OK, so you know I like taking logical constructs and taking them to the extreme. So spam is the logical construct of what happens if I can send email to people for free. The answer is I'll send...
View ArticleTo Share or Not to Share
Seth: No, I think we have to be very careful about up and down, yes and no questions which certain writers like to try to find. I think we have to make sure we’re asking and answering the same...
View ArticleVampires, Pigs, and Curation
Seth: Okay. So, if we’re talking about analogies, let’s go with the eating part, right? When a vampire sucks your blood, you still have blood left and it generates new blood. That’s different than...
View ArticleThe Moral Contract of Curation
Seth: Well, first I want to insert an aside here. And the aside is, there's a moral contract here that's very important. If you had gone to J.D. Salinger's house two years ago and followed him around...
View ArticleLinchpin: The Book
Seth Godin: Ok, so my book is called Linchpin. It came out on January 23rd and made the New York Times Bestseller list yesterday and so it's reaching a lot of people but what's important to me is that...
View ArticleSeth's Personal Experience in Curation
Seth: Well, I became a book packager in 1984. And what book packagers do for a living is think of ideas and make them into books in the same way movie producers think of ideas and make them into...
View ArticleMurdoch Doesn't Have The Guts
Seth: If you want to opt out of Google, you just have to press one button. You’re not listed in Google anymore. It’s not difficult but even Rupert Murdoch doesn’t have the guts to do that because it...
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