I just listened to a 45 minute talk by Seth Godin. It’s the April installment of his Linchpin talks. Anyway, it’s well worth a listen. Below are my notes from the talk. They aren’t complete and are very raw.
-700 years ago, nobody was ‘unemployed’. Some areas of the world
today don’t know what ‘unemployed’ is.
-Gin was one of the key elements of the Industrial Revolution, people were drunk all day. B/C “jobs” were alien.
-reverse correlation between the amount of ‘stuff’ in a populatio and how happy it is
-debt creates more debt, fear of losing things
-school teaches compliance, and that’s the only thing you use in the ‘real world’
-america is in shit not because of a lack of compliance, but because lack of entrepreneurship Read the rest of this entry »