Sethgodin
Quick notes: First, two profiles on the two top execs at Goldman Sachs, CEO Lloyd Blankfein and his heir apparent, COO Gary Cohn. Together they form an interesting picture of the world’s most loved/hated bank. Second, Seth Godin’s post today about quality and how to define it. It appears at first as it’s “more of the same”, but given his background he’s clearly focusing on media/marketing; therefore the “types of quality” framework take on a different, but no less useful, meaning.
There’s a wealth of good articles trying to predict the future of reading. We’ll focus on Kevin Kelly’s latest post on publishing – What Books Will Become – which tries to take the logical steps beyond the Kindle and social reading revolutions to imagine where the “book” is going (social reading here enveloping social highlighting, bookmarking, commenting, additions/corrections). We also link to “trusty Kevin Kelly reverberator” Seth Godin and to other posts.
Two notes on concentration, attention span or taking the time to think. First Seth Godin wonders why people who get the chance to hear and interact with great speakers choose instead to tweet 140-character blurbs to people who are not paying that much attention – many of whom don’t care as much as the person who chose to be there… Then we highlight an article about reading and thinking alone (via Farnam St. blog).
A few (seemingly) random thoughts and quotes on misdirection, disorientation and how to benefit from it. If that doesn’t convince the reader to click on “read more”, there’s a Charlie Munger quotation inside worth the read.
Free e-book organized by Seth Godin sounds a lot like the Red Balloon experience we just discussed on Dec. 6th: it’s less about advertising the authors’ work than it’s about discovering ways that content gets disseminated online – how does an e-book become “viral”? Interesting experiment, so-so book.
Seth Godin’s thought-provoking presentation about the importance of being different. Obviously a bit of a stretch. On many areas of your life you DON’T want things to change, but in many others you certainly want to experiment. The trick is to figure out where the novelty effect can be successful and balance the effort with [...]
