Oh man, next time they shouldn't hide the microphone under his shirt. the rumbling from my sub makes it hard to listen to the questions. Great video and content :) just a technical critique above.
I'm always amazed about the enormous productivity of people. 900 letters! how do you even print and mail them ... would take me months just to write and send those ... how to keep track of them ... wow ... and that's just on a side note ...
This is such a good conversation -- so much wisdom. For example when he explains the difference between Want and Need (21:22) "If you want what TV tells you to want, then you're on this carousel that never ends that fulfills a lot of the industrial economy. The question is...when you are done with that...will you be glad you were on that carousel ride?" Godin never disappoints.
Would you please add good quality captions (clean up typos, add puctuation, speaker identification, sound descriptions, etc)? Good quality captions are as important as good quality audio - there are 50 millions of deaf and hard of hearing people in USA and 642 millions in the world. Thanks!
I'm a first time viewer (and new fan), Jonathan. I like the natural way the conversation flows. The length allows deep discussions, rather than sound bites. I'm now a subscriber :)
Thanks for the video. Seth Godin is the man. And the non-BS approach that you took to take this interview is awesome. Subscribed for more good stuff! :)
Apologies on that. We tried a new mic placement and it created some unintended static. We spent a lot of time cleaning it up, but there's still a bit of remnant noise. Live and learn. :-)
Hi Jonathan, You've got a fantastic and fascinating series going on here! Seth's interview originally got me here, but I was as deeply fascinated with Brad Feld's interview as well. Keep it up! I also just watched the trailer for "Uncertainty" and now I'm highly curious to start reading.
18:53 "For me, I wanna scale trust. I'm not measuring revenue, I'm not measuring profit, I'm measuring trust. If I can continue to do projects that, over time, people are willing to give me the benefit of the doubt and let me make the next project, then, I view that as a good day. And that's why there are no ads on my blog. That's why I haven't figured out how to sell eighteen different things on my blog. I could scale my blog, but that wouldn't scale trust."
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Hey Jonathan, First, thank you for this wonderful conversation with seth. Second, your thought on "Personal decisions and how they are driven by social judgement" was insightful. Third, Seth commenting on "Need v/s Want" raised many questions in my mind. Made me think. Still thinking. Totally, learnt a lot. #GoodLifeProject is awesome.
Absolutely loved it! Love your subject, Seth Godin. I am reading Icarus Deception now and am a supporter through Kickstarter Project. I am cherishing my Big 18 pounder book, What If This Does Not Work . . . Just love Seth, his ideas, his teaching style . . . what more can I say. Lynchpin was a gamechanger for me.
Never enough of Seth! Opening up so many doors every time he speaks or writes.Think Traffic post brought me here and I'm happy to have come across Jonathan's Good Life Project.
This conversation was so inspiring. Very engaging. Thanks for sharing it. The rest of us need to hear such an intelligent, common sense approach to writing/publishing, on a regular basis to remind us to keep things in perspective.
Nice one! Great to see Seth commenting on conception in your head and the translation into reality of 'Need' v 'Want' and perception. Anything similar planed in the future Jonathan?
16:55 "I mean, you look around my office, there are no employees in this whole place. Because it's way easier to shift gears if you build up teams of people who, you know, thrive on the work you're doing with them, but you don't owe them a lifetime of 'How do we make this as big as we can?'"
I've watched many of Seth's interviews, but I especially enjoyed this one because of the book shelf backdrop, the chat about his long publishing experience, and some anecdotes I've never heard him share before. Your interviewing style is also a great balance of casual, insightful, and probing.