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All statements about Seth Godin

37 statements about Seth Godin in 23 sources, by upload date.

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2023

2022

  • 2022-07-20 · How to Make Productivity More Fun — recommendation: Ali: You always own the belief, Ali says: whenever a task feels boring he reframes "I have to do this" as "I get to do this", from a Seth Godin blog post he read a few years ago and keeps coming back to. — 00:07:41
  • 2022-07-26 · 28 Life Lessons from 28 Years in 28 Minutes — Ali cites a line he thinks comes from Seth Godin: if you think you have writer's block, show all the bad writing you have done; usually perfectionism means there is none. (hedged) — 00:02:26
  • 2022-07-26 · 28 Life Lessons from 28 Years in 28 Minutes — Ali: Seth Godin has kept a daily blog since about 1995, Ali says, writing every day for roughly the last 25 years. (hedged) — 00:07:23
  • 2022-08-05 · How to Start an Email Newsletter — Ali has kept up his email newsletter for four years; it is now a staple part of his business and fun, and he will probably keep doing it for the long term. — 00:09:44
  • 2022-08-09 · How I Make $4 Million Per Year - The CBM Framework — recommendation: Ali: Citing Seth Godin's permission marketing, Ali says not to oversell products to your audience, which is a bit scammy; once people opt in by email, telling them what you have on offer is a service. — 00:12:20

2021

  • 2021-01-03 · The Most PRODUCTIVE Thing I Do Each Year — Ali's weekly email Sunday Snippets goes to his mailing list of currently 62,000 people. — 00:05:54
  • 2021-03-28 · My Favourite iPhone Apps — Ali's Airr quotes sync through Readwise into Notion and Roam Research, where he sees the transcripts of what he saved, such as many quotes from a Seth Godin episode. — 00:08:24
  • 2021-08-08 · Dating, Regrets and Boxing - 2 Million Subscriber Q&A — Ali: Asked how many more years he sees himself doing YouTube, Ali says forever, pointing to Seth Godin, who has blogged every day since about 1990. — 00:19:07
  • 2021-08-22 · My Most Important Weekly Habit — Ali sends his newsletter Sunday Snippets mostly every week: a book he is reading, a blog post he enjoyed, music he listens to and general thoughts on his week; it does not take much effort to write. — 00:09:02
  • 2021-09-08 · The Best Productivity Hacks of All Time — Seth Godin (quoted): Seth Godin writes in a blog post that deadlines work because they focus the mind and create urgency, as an external lever, while dessert needs no external force: it is something you get to do. — 00:11:11

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2020

  • 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: On a billboard Ali would put "it won't make you happy", an answer from a Tim Ferriss Show guest, perhaps Seth Godin or Derek Sivers; he reminds himself of it when buying things, as it is true of most things we buy. — 00:10:29
  • 2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — Ali has sent his weekly Sunday email newsletter for 108 weeks without fail, probably the best habit he has started: writing brings ideas, publishing brings feedback and an audience, and it connected him with Noah. (hedged) — 00:44:28
  • 2020-12-20 · 20 Lessons that Improved My Life — Ali: Asked by a nurse near the end of an evening shift to put in a cannula, Ali felt disgruntled until he thought "I get to do this cannula", which made him grateful for the privilege. — 00:03:04
  • 2020-12-20 · 20 Lessons that Improved My Life — recommendation: Ali: When Ali catches himself procrastinating or not wanting to do something, he switches from "I have to do this" to "I get to do this", a reframing from a Seth Godin blog post he read in 2019. — 00:03:54

2019

  • 2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Seth Godin has taught entrepreneurship, marketing, writing and setting up businesses for 30 years, has written about 19 bestselling books, and has written a daily blog post for over a decade. (hedged) — 00:06:07
  • 2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — Ali struggles to write a blog post and his email newsletter every week, while Seth Godin writes a blog post every day. — 00:06:57
  • 2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — Seth Godin (quoted): In his blog post "The gap between have to and get to", Seth Godin says deadlines work because they focus the mind and create urgency: they are an external lever for the work we have to do. — 00:06:57
  • 2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — Seth Godin (quoted): In "The gap between have to and get to", Seth Godin says you can follow the most productive and happy people you know by redefining the work you have chosen as something you get to do. — 00:07:26
  • 2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: In the week since he found Seth Godin's post, Ali, a junior doctor, has thought "I get to do this discharge letter" at work instead of "I have to". — 00:08:52
  • 2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali calls Seth Godin's blog a fantastic one to follow: it is one of the very few email newsletters he subscribes to, and he reads it every day because the advice is generally really valuable. — 00:09:44
  • 2019-10-09 · How I Built a Million Dollar Business in Medical School - 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs — recommendation: Ali also points to Paul Graham's essays on getting startup ideas and starting a startup, Seth Godin's podcast Startup School, and Y Combinator's podcast and Startup School videos. — 00:03:00
  • 2019-10-19 · How I use Notion as a Resonance Calendar — Ali used to start each Sunday's newsletter from a blank slate, taking an hour or two; drawing on his resonance calendar, the latest issue took about 20 minutes. — 00:10:57
  • 2019-12-11 · What's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) — Ali: Any book, podcast, video or article that resonates with Ali goes into his resonance calendar in Notion, which pulls in the article with a link; recent entries are Seth Godin's piece Water Towers and Paul Graham's essay The Lesson to Unlearn. — 00:02:47

2018

  • 2018-06-17 · Monthly Favourites #5 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Seth Godin, an entrepreneur who has written many books on entrepreneurship and marketing, is recommended by many of the company and startup founders Ali has heard interviewed on The Tim Ferriss Show. — 00:04:14
  • 2018-06-17 · Monthly Favourites #5 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali: Seth Godin's podcast Startup School, which Ali has listened to for the past few weeks, has taught him a lot about entrepreneurship and setting up a business. — 00:04:46
  • 2018-06-17 · Monthly Favourites #5 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Running his own business, Ali wishes he had come across Seth Godin earlier: it would have helped him avoid many of the mistakes he has made. — 00:04:46
  • 2018-06-17 · Monthly Favourites #5 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Seth Godin's blog has been running for more than ten years, Ali says, with a post of two or three paragraphs every day. (hedged) — 00:04:46
  • 2018-06-17 · Monthly Favourites #5 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali recommends Seth Godin's blog and has signed up to its mailing list: the posts are short and get to the core of a topic, cutting out all the fluff. — 00:05:15
  • 2018-06-17 · Monthly Favourites #5 - Ali Abdaal — Ali is trying to take inspiration from Seth Godin's writing for his own weekly email newsletter. — 00:05:15
  • 2018-12-08 · Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A — announcement: Ali says he will keep writing his weekly email newsletter forever: if Seth Godin can publish a blog post every day, one piece a week cannot be that hard. — 00:17:18