American - Writer | July 10, 1960 -
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.
Seth Godin
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
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A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.
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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
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This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
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If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.
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If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work.
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I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
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Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.
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Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.
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