Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Akimbo is an ancient word, from the bend in the river or the bend in an archer's bow. It's become a symbol for strength, a posture of possibility, the idea that when we stand tall, arms bent, looking right at it, we can make a difference.
Akimbo's a podcast about our culture and about how we can change it. About seeing what's happening and choosing to do something.
The culture is real, but it can be changed. You can bend it.
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Wheat and taxes (E)
Marshmallows and privilege (E)
Belief and engineering (E)
The Strategy Sessions: The Coral Reefs
The Strategy Sessions: Chocolate
Creating the Conditions for Change (part 2)
Creating the Conditions for Change (part 1)
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THIS IS STRATEGY
Sample size (E)
The Overton Window (E)
The gift economy (E)
Sportsmanship (E)
Surprise and privacy (E)
Operating systems (E)
Live at the United Nations (E)
QA Special (E)
Publishing is hard (E)
Selfish ideas (E)
Cohesion and commerce (E)
The free market has an enemy (E)
Why is software so bad? (E)
Opportunity cost (E)
The great pretender (E)
Bill Gates has a problem (E)
Patient capital (E)
Solving interesting problems (E)
The perils of mindreading (E)
Benefit of the doubt (E)
First comes carriage (E)
Don't be evil (E)
The short list (E)
Meta (E)
Solving interesting problems
What's in the fridge? (E)
Friction (E)
Artificial intelligence is neither (E)
The new modernity (E)
Enrollment and possibility (E)
Not really having this argument (E)
Systems thinking (E)
Of course they cheated (E)
Find the others (E)
Who is Banksy? (E)
Norms and rules (E)
The hype cycle (E)
Aravind (E)
BREATHE (E)
Car dealers and your future (E)
Fooled by spectrum (E)
Supple (E)
Synecdoche (E)
Pizza and sushi (E)
Math class is hard (E)
Moore's law (E)
False merit, appearing real (E)
Interoperability (E)
Five monkeys (E)
Publish yourself (E)
Psephology and the science of voting (E)
The big sort (E)
White sculptures (E)
Why did the chicken cross the road? (E)
The chicken and the egg (E)
It's your turn (E)
Sauce and Godiva (E)
On dignity (E)
Going going gone (E)
How to get into a famous college (E)
Connect the dots (E)
Stop stealing dreams (E)
All rights reserved (E)
The wedding industrial complex (E)
Games matter (E)
Anthems, Pledges and Change (E)
Honest signals (E)
You're it (E)
False proxies
The deletionists (E)
The spirit of the game (E)
Thrash now (E)
Your Bootstrapping Questions (E)
Every day is labor day (E)
Ignore sunk costs (E)
Shun the non-believers (E)
The End of Mediocrity (part 2)
The dance with AI, reality and identity
Your call (isn't very important to us) (E)
Don't just do something, stand there (E)
Distribution and cultural destiny (E)
The mesh (E)
This stinks (E)
Origin stories (E)
Juggling and bicycles (E)
Coincidence and grilled cheese (E)
Tips and gifts (E)
It’s not about the chocolate (E)
More or less
Blogs and Platforms and Permission (E)
Simultaneous invention
Q&A Special (E)
Sharks and deer
The long term (E)
Magic and possibility
Genius (E)
Open big, open wide
Freelancers (E)
Industries
Let's Do It Live (E)
4 Forces
The Regular Kind (E)
Not weak
They’re not trying to be creepy (E)
Cybertruck
Quality and Wabi-Sabi (E)
Pathfinding and failure
Game Theory and the Infinite Game (E)
How Big is Your Family?
Don’t fear placebos (E)
Problems
Hitsville (E)
Our beauty problem
No such thing as writer's block (E)
Clever Hans
I see you (E)
What you pay for
Status roles (E)
Stadium subsidies
The Grand Opening (E)
The Discovery Channel
The invisibility paradox
Creating the conditions for change
The ethnic aisle
Seth and Debbie
The order of that song
The power of search
Let’s kill all the whales
The modern lemonade stand
This time
Podcast ads
Leverage
Enforcement and enrollment
Making up your mind
Help Wanted
In search of the worst CEO
The paradox of red lines
Dancing with time
Guitar strings
Clubhouse
Externalities
Paul has a practice
Make Hockey More Violent
Gravity, evolution and ideas
Telemedicine
Happiness runs
Money is a story
White elephants and gifts
Co-op advertising
Expect Delays
Status roles
Confronting the Continuum
Time keeps on slipping
Untethered
All Q&A episode
No accounting for taste
Project Debt
Proof of stake
Meta dialogue and placeholders
What kind of dog do you have?
Cranberries get sorted
The Miser
Big games
Choice Theory
The Rule of Three
What’s the Office for?
The river of time
Compared to What
A nation of clerks
A Billion Dollar’s Worth of Words
Getting stuck on a broken cycle
Fueling the Engines of Division
The practical ethics of the Jet Ski
Fractions
The Magnification of Small Differences
Graphs and charts
Apertures
Your mileage may vary
A complex of complexes
Turning the ratchet
Advertising built the world
Helmet insights
Rightsizing projects
Upside down marginal cost
Money for nothing?
Modern Choice Theory
Whale Hunting
Sitting in judgment
Entrepreneur’s guide to trademarks
On direct advertising
Please don’t litter
On Monarchists
The architecture of architecture
Postage due
Tim Toady
Spirit of ecstasy
The persistence of technology
The talented mosquito
Consolidation, Publishing
Pay the Writer
Queuing theory
Lots of questions
Paying for stamps
A vote for books
The pursuit of perfection
A quantum theory of customers
The Zoom Revolution
The Game Theory of Carbon
The New York Times Bestseller List
Go invent something
The Hedonic Treadmill
Industry and its discontents
Adversarial interoperability
Ranked Choice Voting
Alexander's Theorem of Professional Exceptionalism
Is Seth real?
Live at Catalyst 2010
Micropayments Part 2
Micropayments
Levi Strauss
The confusions
Organized learning
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Help Wanted
Everybody is irrational
Season 7 opener
Difficult conversations
Living in surplus
The Future of the Library
Why TV is so bad
Cheap placebos
Monkey Selfies
Leverage and gearing
Creative destruction
Curation
The invisible hand of business models
Don't Go
Wheat and Taxes
Marshmallows and privilege
Belief and Engineering
Sample size
The Overton Window
The gift economy
Sportsmanship
Surprise and Privacy
Operating systems
Show your work
Live at the United Nations
Season 5 QA Special
Publishing is hard
Selfish ideas
Cohesion and commerce
The free market has an enemy
Why is software so bad?
Opportunity cost
The great pretender
Bill Gates has a problem
Patient capital
Solving interesting problems
The perils of mind reading
Benefit of the doubt
First comes carriage
Don't be evil
The Short List
Meta
What's in the fridge?
Friction
Artificial intelligence is neither
The new modernity
Enrollment and possibility
Not really having this argument
Systems thinking
Of course they cheated
Find the others
Who is Banksy?
Norms and rules
The hype cycle
Aravind
BREATHE
Car dealers and your future
Fooled by spectrum
Supple
Synecdoche
Pizza and sushi
Math Class Is Hard
Money Moves
Moore’s law
False Merit, Appearing Real
Interoperability
5 monkeys
Publish yourself QA
Publish yourself
Psephology and the science of voting
The big sort
White sculptures
Why did the chicken cross the road?
The chicken and the egg
It's your turn
Sauce and Godiva
On dignity
Going going gone
How to get into a famous college
Connect the dots
Stop stealing dreams
All rights reserved
THIS IS MARKETING
The wedding industrial complex
Games matter
Anthems, pledges and change
Honest signals
You're it
The deletionists
The spirit of the game
Thrash now
Your Bootstrapping Questions
Every day is labor day
Ignore sunk costs
Shun the non-believers
Your call (isn’t) very important to us
Don't just Do Something, Stand There
Distribution and cultural destiny
The mesh
This stinks
Origin stories
Juggling and bicycles
Coincidence and grilled cheese
Tips and gifts
It’s not about the chocolate
Blogs and Platforms and Permission
Q&A, the season wrap up
The long term
Genius
Networks and lockin
Freelancers
Let's Do It Live
The Regular Kind
They’re not trying to be creepy
Quality and Wabi-Sabi
Game Theory and the Infinite Game
Don't fear placebos
Hitsville
No such thing (as writer's block)
I see you
Status roles
The Grand Opening