Seth’s Free e-book: What Matters Now

Seth Godin has put together an e-book with one-page insights from over 70 thinkers and doers. And to top it off, he has made it free and has encouraged fellow bloggers to make it available for free download. So, gladly, and with appreciation to Seth, I am making it available below:

Free e-book: What Matters Now

I want to quote part of Howard Mann’s entry in this e-book, because it steals the thoughts right from my mind:

More megaphones don’t equal a better dialogue. We’ve become slaves to our mobile devices and the glow of our screens. It used to be much more simple and, somewhere, simple turned into slow.

We walk the streets with our heads down staring into 3-inch screens while the world whisks by doing the same. And yet we’re convinced we are more connected to each other than ever before. Multi-tasking has become a badge of honor. I want to know why.

I don’t have all the answers to these questions but I find myself thinking about them more and more. In between tweets, blog posts and facebook updates.

Like Howard, I often think about whether our new “connected culture” does more harm than good. I really do not know the answer, but I think much of my own connection time could be better spent.

If any of you know how to convert Seth’s pdf e-book to ePub format, I would be happy to host an ePub version as well as the PDF version. I’d love to be able to read it with the Stanza app on my iPhone. Update: I used Calibre to produce an ePub version, but it did not work well … the dual-column format of Seth’s book is converted to a single-column format in ePub format, so that you wind up with jumbled text.

There are a lot of great insights in this e-book. Please download it today, put it to work in your life, and share it with others.

And, after you’ve finished reading it, let me know your thoughts on it.