• Posts Tagged ‘Seth Godin’

    Further Publishing Resources For The Occult Cyborg

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    There's off-brand and then there's off off-brand

    More people searched for the term “Kindle” than “iPad” both before and after Christmas. That never happens. It’s supposed to go “iPhone, iPad, world peace, a different baby sister that maybe isn’t so annoying, everything else.” Via search trends, twitter and such, the sentiment of entire nations is available for you to measure for...

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    We Are All In The Apocalypse Business Now: 10 Career Hacks

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    He's off to the General Shoppe to buy more beads for his abacus

    A lot of the time, you aren’t actually in the business that you think you are. There is Seth Godin’s famous analogy of how many railroad companies got into the airline business. Precisely none. They made the mistake of thinking they were in the “trains and track” business rather than the transport business. Because...

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    7 Steps To Your Own Risk Adventure

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    A dear school friend accompanied me on my recent trip to Nottingham. Through a series of ‘random’ coincidences, he has ended up as the general manager of a large event construction business within three years of graduating from university. On the other side of the world. Over five to six hundred beers in the...

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    Do You Trick Your Dragons Or Do You Fight Them?

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    As we all know, Bilbo tricked his dragon. (At least to start with.) But then, it’s not like a hobbit would beat a dragon in a fair fight. No one would. I’ve been thinking about this in terms of reptilian metaphor for the amygdala. You know that ‘lizard’ part of your brain? You can’t...

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    Things I Like

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    Paris

    Now, I’m not going to say the idea for this post is ‘stolen’. I’m going to use the more copyright-friendly idea of ‘inspired by’. But really, it is stolen. Stolen from the wondrous Domestic Witch who was kind enough to mention my little ol’ blog in a post that is essentially exactly the same...

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