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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin — 363 episodes

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1

What should school cost?

2

Cheap placebos (E)

3

Monkey selfies (E)

4

Leverage and gearing (E)

5

Creative destruction (E)

6

Curation (E)

7

The invisible hand of business models (E)

8

Don't go (E)

9

Wheat and taxes (E)

10

Marshmallows and privilege (E)

11

Belief and engineering (E)

12

The Strategy Sessions: The Coral Reefs

13

The Strategy Sessions: Chocolate

14

Creating the Conditions for Change (part 2)

15

Creating the Conditions for Change (part 1)

16

MORE ON STRATEGY

17

THIS IS STRATEGY

18

Sample size (E)

19

The Overton Window (E)

20

The gift economy (E)

21

Sportsmanship (E)

22

Surprise and privacy (E)

23

Operating systems (E)

24

Live at the United Nations (E)

25

QA Special (E)

26

Publishing is hard (E)

27

Selfish ideas (E)

28

Cohesion and commerce (E)

29

The free market has an enemy (E)

30

Why is software so bad? (E)

31

Opportunity cost (E)

32

The great pretender (E)

33

Bill Gates has a problem (E)

34

Patient capital (E)

35

Solving interesting problems (E)

36

The perils of mindreading (E)

37

Benefit of the doubt (E)

38

First comes carriage (E)

39

Don't be evil (E)

40

The short list (E)

41

Meta (E)

42

Solving interesting problems

43

What's in the fridge? (E)

44

Friction (E)

45

Artificial intelligence is neither (E)

46

The new modernity (E)

47

Enrollment and possibility (E)

48

Not really having this argument (E)

49

Systems thinking (E)

50

Of course they cheated (E)

51

Find the others (E)

52

Who is Banksy? (E)

53

Norms and rules (E)

54

The hype cycle (E)

55

Aravind (E)

56

BREATHE (E)

57

Car dealers and your future (E)

58

Fooled by spectrum (E)

59

Supple (E)

60

Synecdoche (E)

61

Pizza and sushi (E)

62

Math class is hard (E)

63

Moore's law (E)

64

False merit, appearing real (E)

65

Interoperability (E)

66

Five monkeys (E)

67

Publish yourself (E)

68

Psephology and the science of voting (E)

69

The big sort (E)

70

White sculptures (E)

71

Why did the chicken cross the road? (E)

72

The chicken and the egg (E)

73

It's your turn (E)

74

Sauce and Godiva (E)

75

On dignity (E)

76

Going going gone (E)

77

How to get into a famous college (E)

78

Connect the dots (E)

79

Stop stealing dreams (E)

80

All rights reserved (E)

81

The wedding industrial complex (E)

82

Games matter (E)

83

Anthems, Pledges and Change (E)

84

Honest signals (E)

85

You're it (E)

86

False proxies

87

The deletionists (E)

88

The spirit of the game (E)

89

Thrash now (E)

90

Your Bootstrapping Questions (E)

91

Every day is labor day (E)

92

Ignore sunk costs (E)

93

Shun the non-believers (E)

94

The End of Mediocrity (part 2)

95

The dance with AI, reality and identity

96

Your call (isn't very important to us) (E)

97

Don't just do something, stand there (E)

98

Distribution and cultural destiny (E)

99

The mesh (E)

100

This stinks (E)

101

Origin stories (E)

102

Juggling and bicycles (E)

103

Coincidence and grilled cheese (E)

104

Tips and gifts (E)

105

It’s not about the chocolate (E)

106

More or less

107

Blogs and Platforms and Permission (E)

108

Simultaneous invention

109

Q&A Special (E)

110

Sharks and deer

111

The long term (E)

112

Magic and possibility

113

Genius (E)

114

Open big, open wide

115

Freelancers (E)

116

Industries

117

Let's Do It Live (E)

118

4 Forces

119

The Regular Kind (E)

120

Not weak

121

They’re not trying to be creepy (E)

122

Cybertruck

123

Quality and Wabi-Sabi (E)

124

Pathfinding and failure

125

Game Theory and the Infinite Game (E)

126

How Big is Your Family?

127

Don’t fear placebos (E)

128

Problems

129

Hitsville (E)

130

Our beauty problem

131

No such thing as writer's block (E)

132

Clever Hans

133

I see you (E)

134

What you pay for

135

Status roles (E)

136

Stadium subsidies

137

The Grand Opening (E)

138

The Discovery Channel

139

The invisibility paradox

140

Creating the conditions for change

141

The ethnic aisle

142

Seth and Debbie

143

The order of that song

144

The power of search

145

Let’s kill all the whales

146

The modern lemonade stand

147

This time

148

Podcast ads

149

Leverage

150

Enforcement and enrollment

151

Making up your mind

152

Help Wanted

153

In search of the worst CEO

154

The paradox of red lines

155

Dancing with time

156

Guitar strings

157

Clubhouse

158

Externalities

159

Paul has a practice

160

Make Hockey More Violent

161

Gravity, evolution and ideas

162

Telemedicine

163

Happiness runs

164

Money is a story

165

White elephants and gifts

166

Co-op advertising

167

Expect Delays

168

Status roles

169

Confronting the Continuum

170

Time keeps on slipping

171

Untethered

172

All Q&A episode

173

No accounting for taste

174

Project Debt

175

Proof of stake

176

Meta dialogue and placeholders

177

What kind of dog do you have?

178

Cranberries get sorted

179

The Miser

180

Big games

181

Choice Theory

182

The Rule of Three

183

What’s the Office for?

184

The river of time

185

Compared to What

186

A nation of clerks

187

A Billion Dollar’s Worth of Words

188

Getting stuck on a broken cycle

189

Fueling the Engines of Division

190

The practical ethics of the Jet Ski

191

Fractions

192

The Magnification of Small Differences

193

Graphs and charts

194

Apertures

195

Your mileage may vary

196

A complex of complexes

197

Turning the ratchet

198

Advertising built the world

199

Helmet insights

200

Rightsizing projects

201

Upside down marginal cost

202

Money for nothing?

203

Modern Choice Theory

204

Whale Hunting

205

Sitting in judgment

206

Entrepreneur’s guide to trademarks

207

On direct advertising

208

Please don’t litter

209

On Monarchists

210

The architecture of architecture

211

Postage due

212

Tim Toady

213

Spirit of ecstasy

214

The persistence of technology

215

The talented mosquito

216

Consolidation, Publishing

217

Pay the Writer

218

Queuing theory

219

Lots of questions

220

Paying for stamps

221

A vote for books

222

The pursuit of perfection

223

A quantum theory of customers

224

The Zoom Revolution

225

The Game Theory of Carbon

226

The New York Times Bestseller List

227

Go invent something

228

The Hedonic Treadmill

229

Industry and its discontents

230

Adversarial interoperability

231

Ranked Choice Voting

232

Alexander's Theorem of Professional Exceptionalism

233

Is Seth real?

234

Live at Catalyst 2010

235

Micropayments Part 2

236

Micropayments

237

Levi Strauss

238

The confusions

239

Organized learning

240

Letter from Birmingham Jail

241

Help Wanted

242

Everybody is irrational

243

Season 7 opener

244

Difficult conversations

245

Living in surplus

246

The Future of the Library

247

Why TV is so bad

248

Cheap placebos

249

Monkey Selfies

250

Leverage and gearing

251

Creative destruction

252

Curation

253

The invisible hand of business models

254

Don't Go

255

Wheat and Taxes

256

Marshmallows and privilege

257

Belief and Engineering

258

Sample size

259

The Overton Window

260

The gift economy

261

Sportsmanship

262

Surprise and Privacy

263

Operating systems

264

Show your work

265

Live at the United Nations

266

Season 5 QA Special

267

Publishing is hard

268

Selfish ideas

269

Cohesion and commerce

270

The free market has an enemy

271

Why is software so bad?

272

Opportunity cost

273

The great pretender

274

Bill Gates has a problem

275

Patient capital

276

Solving interesting problems

277

The perils of mind reading

278

Benefit of the doubt

279

First comes carriage

280

Don't be evil

281

The Short List

282

Meta

283

What's in the fridge?

284

Friction

285

Artificial intelligence is neither

286

The new modernity

287

Enrollment and possibility

288

Not really having this argument

289

Systems thinking

290

Of course they cheated

291

Find the others

292

Who is Banksy?

293

Norms and rules

294

The hype cycle

295

Aravind

296

BREATHE

297

Car dealers and your future

298

Fooled by spectrum

299

Supple

300

Synecdoche

301

Pizza and sushi

302

Math Class Is Hard

303

Money Moves

304

Moore’s law

305

False Merit, Appearing Real

306

Interoperability

307

5 monkeys

308

Publish yourself QA

309

Publish yourself

310

Psephology and the science of voting

311

The big sort

312

White sculptures

313

Why did the chicken cross the road?

314

The chicken and the egg

315

It's your turn

316

Sauce and Godiva

317

On dignity

318

Going going gone

319

How to get into a famous college

320

Connect the dots

321

Stop stealing dreams

322

All rights reserved

323

THIS IS MARKETING

324

The wedding industrial complex

325

Games matter

326

Anthems, pledges and change

327

Honest signals

328

You're it

329

The deletionists

330

The spirit of the game

331

Thrash now

332

Your Bootstrapping Questions

333

Every day is labor day

334

Ignore sunk costs

335

Shun the non-believers

336

Your call (isn’t) very important to us

337

Don't just Do Something, Stand There

338

Distribution and cultural destiny

339

The mesh

340

This stinks

341

Origin stories

342

Juggling and bicycles

343

Coincidence and grilled cheese

344

Tips and gifts

345

It’s not about the chocolate

346

Blogs and Platforms and Permission

347

Q&A, the season wrap up

348

The long term

349

Genius

350

Networks and lockin

351

Freelancers

352

Let's Do It Live

353

The Regular Kind

354

They’re not trying to be creepy

355

Quality and Wabi-Sabi

356

Game Theory and the Infinite Game

357

Don't fear placebos

358

Hitsville

359

No such thing (as writer's block)

360

I see you

361

Status roles

362

The Grand Opening

363

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