No Seth; A Little Jory

Warning! The following is a personal ramble.  This is stuff that some of you already know and the rest will eventually find out.  This morning however, I am not particularly patient.

It rains during the summer months in Florida.

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays could get better.

Abe Lincoln was once President of the United States.

Seth Godin is a marketing icon.

I love Seth Godin, I am just not going to write about him here.  Perhaps if my blog were more popular and I penetrated more than six degrees away from you guys, I would.  I believe I could say the same thing about Tom Peters.  Both Seth and Tom have superheated in the blogosphere.  In my industry, superheat means the amount of heat that is added to an already saturated level of refrigerant.  (The Air Conditioning Biz)

There is another reason that I hesitate to write about these fine, insightful gentlemen and others like them.  I walk a delicate bridge between groupie-ism and evangelist- connector.  I am a connector.  And in order to connect, I sometimes venture more than halfway across the chasm.  What I am not - is a me too person.  This is the type of person who creates a blog and links out to all of the hip, mod, rad-happpening, cool cats in order to gain stature. 

Jory Des Jardins borders on being a subject of this last group.  I am sure Jory had a good size following in the past.  But her gig with Fast Company has now rocketed her to the caboose of the Seth-Train.  And as with Tom and Seth, Jory's stuff is outrageously good.  It's a safe bet that most of my pre-Tampa connections have learned of Jory.  I am hoping here that a few of you folks in the city by the Bay have yet to.

Bill Gates is a pretty wealthy guy.

Update:  Jane Chin, in her Blog of a Scientist-Turned Entrepreneur, takes a part of my theme and brilliantly Cinderellizes it in Blind Devotion to Role Models.

Comments

[Jane Chin]

There's a bit of a groupie in all of us, but I'd rather (for example) "be a 'Peter Drucker' type" in my own right than fawn upon all-things-Drucker.

[Dave]

Jane - That is magnificently cyrstal and so economic! You captured the essence of my babble in one sentence. I love it.

[Jory Des Jardins]

I'm beside myself! What an honor to be caboosed with this crowd. Note to self: Become worthy of Dave's praise. I dig your taste--and your reading list--and will have to come back.

--JD

[Proonotum]

Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations.
He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the
Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an
open market.
If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarries then he
should not accept of the Earth that which he refuses to give of
himself.

Such a man would expect a pear of a peach tree.
Such a man would expect a stone to lay an egg.
Such a man would expect Sears to assemble a lawnmower.
-- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"

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