Seth Godin - "Reject the tyranny of being picked: Pick yourself"

Six years ago, Seth Godin wrote about the job of the future - the (online) community organizer. More recently, Seth Godin wrote a piece, 'Reject the tyranny of being picked: Pick yourself,' and said:

"Amanda Hocking is making a million dollars a year publishing her own work to the Kindle. No publisher. Rebecca Black has reached more than 15,000,000 listeners, like it or not, without a record label. 

Art is theft, Ctd Seth Godin

Seth Godin wrote the most wonderful piece over on the Ted blog here as part of the 'Can I Borrow That?' blog series. His piece was entitled, 'Why I want you to steal my ideas'. He explained that we can build something new and fantastic by stealing and synthesising ideas. He said:

"Please don’t steal my car... But my ideas? Sure, yes, please, by all means, take them...

I got an email from a reader last week. She was spitting angry at another blogger and wanted me to lower the hammer on him. According to my loyal reader, he had plagiarized many of my ideas, writing one post after another that, while not using my words, clearly demonstrated to her that he was hunting on my land. 

Not true, I assured her. He hadn’t plagiarized anything, he had built something new, by synthesizing ideas and experiences to invent the next step, a step available to all of us."