notes on podcasts

apr 5 - good colin marshall podcast with seth godin on Linchpin, a book about art, life and making a difference

• "my favorite creators and personal icons are all a little bit insane"
• "our economy's new message is that if you are in the herd, you're going to fail"
• "do you deserve to be paid more than the cheapest person I can find to do your job?"
• "what is a resume but a brand-name filled chronicle of compliance: hey, look at this evidence that I can comply with the system"
• "you can be excellent, but excellence is not so much the deal, you should be remarkable"
• "being slightly more competent doesn't work, what we are looking for are incompetent people who are incompetent in interesting ways"
• "I haven't checked the reviews of my book on Amazon for months because they didn't improve my writing"
• "Bob Dylan gets booed off the stage every 10 years, the Monkeys never get booed, but they don't do anything interesting"
• "when people say they hate marketers they mean they hate people who promote average stuff to the average mass"
• BOOK: LinchPin:a book about art, life and making a difference
• "authorship: the ability to get into a reader's head and speak to them calmly at his own pace"
• "the book industry is about to collapse completely, ebooks are just skimming up the little bit that still makes money"
• "I don't write books to make money, but if I did, it wouldn't make sense"
• "when you are in the business to make money, you very quickly become an oldies act"
• "we can't trick people anymore into eating any more potato chips"
• "the company's receptionist improvised, did things for genuine reasons, and changed people for the better, that's my definition of an artist, I have no other word for it"