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Seth Godin on Marketing, Meaning, and the Bibs We Wear
31 May 2023 24 published claims 2 attributable people
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“” During the pandemic, it was easy to talk to your friends about this thing that they could do to get themselves out of their malaise. But now, Peloton is not giving people a good reason to tell their friends, which means it’s not going to grow, and it’s easier to quit or have it fade away because you don’t feel missed when you’re not there.”
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“Both of them have stories that have problems right now because, as the trends shift, Toyota finds itself behind because they bet on different alternative fuels than electricity, and Tesla because their founder hoards attention.”
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“The Three Stooges episode where Curly is in the tub with the pipes, and they keep leaking? Yes, I love classic Three Stooges.”
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“I think I might say Richard Serra, who certainly is highly rated, but I meet smart people all the time who think he’s a fraud, and it’s amazing.”
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“At the same time, most of my parents’ friends would happily go to the city to watch a football game, but never once went to the city to go to the museum. So, I think what I learned is just how different people who seem the same really are.”
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“I think that there is a bunch of art from the ’80s, where it was mostly assemblages of trash, and then we added to it video and noise.”
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“The magic of a book is, it’s a big chunk of your life, and then it’s not. There’s a new space right in front of me, and I don’t know.”
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“I think that Frederick Taylor’s demise is long overdue, that the purpose of a beehive is not to maximize the amount of honey we produce.”
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“Oh, the next thing that I will do is give a talk at Harvard on the book, but the next thing that I will do that isn’t related to the book is, I am diving deep into how communities and software connect.”
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“” The lesson is, once your subconscious knows you’re going to keep typing no matter what, it becomes sufficiently embarrassed by the bad stuff that it will let some good stuff in.”
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“I think that I have probably held onto this 62-year-old’s perception of content and books and thoughtful output longer than the culture wants to embrace, the same way lots of artists have held onto the album as opposed to the single.”
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“I think there’s a confusion here between the surface of a jingle or the noise we hear and what marketing actually is.”
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“I would say Jill Greenberg, the photographer who has reinvented herself several times over and really shifted the way people look at photography.”
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“I think I need it to be jittery 1936 footage for me to suspend disbelief and to imagine I’m just watching a perfectly timed cartoon.”
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“I will tell you, selfishly or generously, depending on your point of view, I don’t fly anymore because that was the part I hated the most.”
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“The same way — and I’m sure you remember this — when Google came along — I was at Yahoo at the time — when Google came along, if you took Google results and results from Bing or Yahoo, and just switched the logos at the top, people would say they prefer the Google results, even when they were looking at the Microsoft results, because Google didn’t have a technology problem.”
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“Well, there’s no doubt in my mind that we’re going to see thousands and thousands of variations on LLMs because now that we know the problem can be solved, it’s going to be solved in many different ways.”
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“I think that our ability to rationalize our lazy, convenient, selfish, immoral, bad behavior is unbounded, and people will find a reason to justify the thing that they used to do because that’s how we evolved.”
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“I think online education, while it’s pluralistic in the sense that we can get to more people, is a pale shadow of what online learning could be, and my hope is that AI could help with that.”
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“They kicked me out of the Direct Marketing Association for my stance against spam a long time ago. But I guess what I would say is this: we have developed a culture where it is accepted and expected that the recipient will guard their attention and guard their pocketbook.”
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“What I like about it is that it is, in and of itself, very clear about what it’s good at, and it doesn’t pretend that it is me because it’s not me.”
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“There are people who believe that a utilitarian sort of Soviet mindset is better, but even that person is driving their 25-year-old Pontiac because the story they tell themselves about that car makes them feel better.”
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“Now I own a lot of cookbooks, but I almost never touch them because the internet, because Kenji — you just type Kenji and then the name of whatever recipe, and you’ll find the best version of the recipe.”
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“The answer is that professional sports in any country that are beloved, are beloved because they remind us of our parents.”
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