Seth's Blog
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect
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- 9,899 from 16 Jan 2002 to 31 Oct 2026
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- about daily (389 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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Latest
October 2026
- The Hallmark dilemma
- Cooperation (the fall book list)
- Explaining funny
- Be careful what you wish for
- The half-life of disappointment
- Is our attitude up to us?
- Hospitality in the mirror
- Caveman leadership and the CDO*
- The relentless math of bandwagoning
- The hotlist
- The age of initiative
- Toward depth
- Thieves’ cant slang
- Two commuting hacks
- Anticipating confusion
- The race to the bottom feels inevitable…
- A good worker
- Purple Space problem solving
- Addressing fear
- Things people don’t say
- The unreliable witness
- The best in the world is a local problem
- Talent becomes media
- Productive dissatisfaction
- Thin friction and thicker walls
- Our genie problem
- How do you like them apples?
- Building a second-wave AI business
- Lobby expertise
- Create a handoff doc
- Getting critical
- Uniformity
- Modern vanity
- Media and messages
September 2026
- Extraction or generation
- What sort of fuel?
- Two ways to use lock-in/loyalty
- The opposite of mass
- KnotChat: Danny Meyer
- Easily distracted and mildly interested
- KnotChat: Jennifer Myers Chua
- Thinking about your purpose
- Say what you want
- KnotChat: Nicole Walters
- Responsibility, fault, blame and shame
- Badge vs Scoreboard
- KnotChat: Rodrigo Delavina Simon
- Invitation to a KnotChat
- KnotChat! (Simone Giertz and Chip Conley)
- A book can’t change your life
- Upside/downside
- Disconcerting genre shift
- A series of bad decisions
- GFI (and the alternative)
- Work isn’t optional…
- Maps and a compass
- Canceling one flight
- When does it become a speech?
- The daily review
- Solace
- Things are humming
- How much extra for “not lazy”?
- Two schools of thought about school
- “I don’t know”
- The reality of sunk costs
- The lab, the factory and the dentist
- Homo Habilis
- An end to fully open networks
- What it is like to be a dog?
- Enrollment and learning
- Apophenia cuts both ways
August 2026
- Ten steps on the road to efficient
- Taking a shot/wasting a slot
- Fit and Finish
- What’s next?
- Fertilizing the weeds
- Hiding out
- On the verge of done
- “Thanks for your quick response”
- The Drucker drift
- Don’t eat if you’re not hungry
- Assume misunderstanding
- Exponential
- Don’t steal the revelation
- The Amazon tax
- Consider the AI tear down
- Replace the filters
- Short term dumb, long term smart
- Emotional hygiene
- Beating yourself up
- The magic of a two-year waitlist
- Attention up for auction
- Give me one reason
- “We’re all being surprised at the same time”
- The McIntosh Modernity Index
- As the crow flies
- The modern library
- The disconnect between effort and value
- Preference falsification
- Celebrity art
- The Rowboat
- “Welcome back”
July 2026
- “That doesn’t work”
- Organizations that need you
- Eager to give up agency
- The smush
- Optimizing yourself into a corner
- The Lego problem, revisited
- More interesting
- First take/next take/last take
- Industrialism and the slippery slope
- State champs
- The Having/Doing job gap
- The power of positive argument
- Pointless banality and the uncanny valley
- Imminent, urgent, trending and important
- Resources and focus
- Two kinds of word salad
- Disposable software
- “Is it okay if I share my screen?”
- The hedonic treadmill
- Controversial
- Mel’s back
- A captive audience
- Riff-o-matic
- Generous collusion
- Goal clarity and the Hawking index
- The Builder’s Creed
- Facts and feelings
- The urgency paradox
- Freedom
- Operator error
- Left unsaid
- Can you believe it?
June 2026
- Fancy food update
- We are all weird
- Backlist confusion
- The generic headline and the lazy slogan
- Seeking a complement
- You don’t need a better camera
- Standby –> Intervention
- Empathy and good advice
- Limited swag (the Knot multipack)
- Blogs, traffic, and Google
- Anniversaries
- “In its larval state”
- 99% might be enough (or not)
- The gap between true and known
- Promotion, activation, conversation
- Status symbols
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