More Bottom Lines From Seth Godin — One Honest Indie

Debbi Mack
2 min readAug 22, 2023

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I get food for thought from reading Seth Godin’s daily blog posts.

That’s why I share them. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy them, too.

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Productive assets and useful flows

Hard choices today often lead to good outcomes later, and while today is real, we spend almost all of our lives living in later.

PS: And some of us are simply trying to survive the next few minutes.

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Volition and placebos

Stories are a balm. And our brains are powerful, though not always (or even often) under our conscious control.

“It’s all in your head.” Where else would it be?

PS: Don’t I know it.

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Avoid false proxies

Just because someone interviews well, is friendly, or looks like you doesn’t mean that they can do the work that needs to be done.

Now that we can measure so many things, we might as well put that to use. Attitude and skill are useful proxies, while the easy-to-measure stuff is simply an expensive and hurtful distraction.

PS: I try to pay as little attention as possible to all this.

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Falling behind

The route is a loop. No one is getting anywhere you’re not getting. They’re just leaving this place faster.

PS: Memento mori. Remember that you [have to] die.

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Bought or sold?

Many companies believe they have a new product that will sell itself from the first day. But that’s unlikely.

We shouldn’t disrespect selling by pretending we don’t need it.

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There! Seth said it. 🙂

Originally published at https://debbimackblogs.com on August 22, 2023.

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Debbi Mack
Debbi Mack

Written by Debbi Mack

New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including the Sam McRae Mystery series. Screenwriter, podcaster, and blogger. My website: www.debbimack.com.

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