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Design like Apple, but name like P&G
Seth Godin
dzisiaj, 11:51

Apple’s naming approach is inconsistent, it begs for lawsuits (offensive and defensive) and it shouldn’t be the model for your organization. iPhone is a phone, iPad is a pad, iPod is a … (and owning a letter of the alphabet is i-mpossible).

Procter and Gamble, on the other hand, has been doing it beautifully for a hundred years. Crisco, Tide, Pringles, Bounty, Duracell–these are fanciful names that turn the generic product (and the story we believe about it) into something distinct.

If you can invent an entire category, fabulous, that’s an achievement. For the rest of us, resist the temptation to be boring or to be too aggressive. It’s your name and you need to live with it.

[More on naming]
java*****:icon(’:oops:’)wczoraj
London, Boston and sharing your art (plus the new iphone app, it’s free)
Seth Godin
wczoraj, 12:20

Tickets just went on sale for the Icarus event in London, organized by Penguin UK. It’s during the evening on the 17th of January. I’ll be talking about, reading from and doing Q&A about The Icarus Deception. You can get tickets here.

Also, tickets are now available for the Boston session on January 23rd at MIT. Find out more here.

All the early bird tickets for New York on January 2nd are gone, but there are still some other tickets remaining.

We now have more than 250 locations around the world established for the Icarus Sessions on the evening of January 2. Please find your city by clicking here. You can read about how it works right here. A few things to clarify:

1. You can attend the group sessions without presenting.

2. It doesn’t cost anything, unless the local organizer passes the hat to pay for rent or snacks.

3. It will inspire you. I hope you’ll attend.

By popular demand, a fabulous new free iPhone app is now available for those that follow this blog. Click below to get your copy:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/seth-godins-blog/id580840195?ls=1&mt=8

It was developed by Anderson+Spear in record time, with flair and grace. Well done, guys.
wjava*****:icon(’:oops:’)torek
Industrialism and the death of agency
Seth Godin
wtorek, 18:06

Agency is the ability to make a decision, and to be responsible for the decision you make.

Since there have been armies, society has made an exception for soldiers. A soldier following orders is not a murderer, as he doesn’t have agency–society doesn’t generally want its soldiers questioning orders from our generals.

But the industrial age has taken this absolution to ever-higher heights. Every worker in every job is given a pass, because he’s just doing his job. The cigarette marketer or the foreman in the low-wage sweatshop… they’re just doing their jobs.

This free pass is something that makes the industrial economy so attractive to many people. They’ve been raised to want someone else to be responsible for the what and the how, and they’d just like a job, thanks very much.

As the industrial company sputters and fades, there’s a fork in the road. In one direction lies the opportunity to regain agency, to take responsibility for ever more of our actions and their effects. In the other direction is the race to the bottom, and the dehumanizing process of more compliance, a cog in an uncaring system.