Seth Godin's success is proof that mediocrity pays if you're early.
>Or say you make a mistake and go to the concert instead of selling (those seats are $500 seats now). But Bruce is sick and Manfred Mann is substituting for him. You don’t like him so much. But you paid $500 for the seats! Should you stay?
Well then the concert would be cancelled and you would get a refund.
In regard to the sign, if it were accidentally misspelled the person who made it should fix it at no extra cost.
He cannot even give good examples to support his thesis.
In the sign example, just imagine that the customer made the misspelling in the original order. The sign maker probably isn't going to throw in free services to fix the customer's mistake.
"His posts appear hours before I awake every day, despite us being in the same time zone."
Real blog software* lets you schedule posts. It's eminently possible that he writes these in batches and has his blog post them at midnight local time. He seems to be using Wordpress, which has multiple plugins out there to make this even easier to do.
Regularly keeping this up for eleven years is nothing to sneeze at but I am pretty sure that the likelyhood of him getting up at 3AM every morning and writing a post is nil.
* yes this means your static site generator is not Real Blog Software
>His posts appear hours before I awake every day, despite us being in the same time zone.
What does his publishing schedule have to do with anything? He's successful because he chose a time that's earlier in the day for your time zone than other bloggers do?
>Or say you make a mistake and go to the concert instead of selling (those seats are $500 seats now). But Bruce is sick and Manfred Mann is substituting for him. You don’t like him so much. But you paid $500 for the seats! Should you stay?
Well then the concert would be cancelled and you would get a refund.
In regard to the sign, if it were accidentally misspelled the person who made it should fix it at no extra cost.
He cannot even give good examples to support his thesis.