The Ledger
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Godin: Any Book Written for 'Everybody' Is Guaranteed to Fail
“So that book is going to fail. I happily put that in writing right this minute. That book is going to fail.”
Godin: Acton Academy bans students from asking adults questions
“I like to talk about the Acton Academy which is now, there's more than a hundred of them. It's basically a one-room schoolhouse. Typically, there are 50 kids and two adults in the whole building, and one of them is the custodian. And one of the rules at Acton …”
Godin: Lexus's launch spec required beating Mercedes by a standard deviation
“That what it meant for a Lexus to be good enough when they first came out was it had to be a standard deviation better than a Mercedes.”
Godin: I have published 7,500 consecutive blog posts without missing a day
“So I've written 7500 blog posts in a row. Haven't missed one.”