Next up was Seth Godin. I was pretty exited about hearing him for 2 main reasons: I had read some of his blog posts (confession: I haven’t finished any of his books) I heard he had 142 slides for his 30 minute presentation A lot of the stuff he said struck more an individual and entrepreneurial tone. I think if you listened to this talk but were stuck in a corporate grey cube you’d be really really frustrated. He talked about the individual hand made item vs. the mass-produced item. The former Better Crocker R&D kitchens now house a hand-made (and expensive) chocolate business. There are a couple good things in here. The first was about owning your own business. If you are creating great things, and you are full of ideas, why do you hold back and not let them flow‽ He was talking about the pen making machine at this point. Before the pen making machine, it would take a...

