I love connections. I've been reading a lot of Seth Godin recently: right now, his book Free Prize Inside. He thanks Joi Ito within (and cites him as an example in another chapter). Well guess what, I've been reading Joi Ito's blog too — and enjoying watching him cook bamboo shoots to a soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto, longtime fave composer of mine. Of course, in another direction, Godin cites Malcolm Gladwell's studies, who I enjoyed before. Gladwell is on TED Talks, where many of my fave thinker-doers have presented, including David Pogue, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, and Seth Godin (don't need to hyperlink him again… gee this is getting MetaFilter dense! And MetaFilter was founded by Matthew Haughey, who posted his "Adventures in $40 eyeglasses" on 43 Folders which helped me get new vision. Not only did they reference PKD, 43 Folders is often cited in "lifehack/productivity rings", including Lifehacker, which has featured articles by Seth Godin and Tim Ferris before).
This great blog post glues the Godin-Tim Ferris connection.
Today, I heard of Cali & Jody of ROWE rising fame from Tim Ferriss' blog. Cali & Jody, au naturel, mention Seth Godin.
All the excellent people know each other — or perhaps can be inferred from this post, Seth Godin is just a really remarkable connector-maven-salesman hybrid.
All the excellent people know each other … but sometimes they seem to forget about each other or ignore each other for lame reasons. Which quite frankly sucks.
Torley- You may be interested in reading an essay I wrote on one of my blogs at http://karaspengler.livejournal.com/1640.html. It is about communities, but it is also about connections.
There are no excellent people but many excellent ideas.
@Feldspar: Maybe lack of time? Or in some cases, they aren't so excellent?
@agent: Why no excellent people? What caliber of human does it take to come up with excellent ideas, whether alone or with others?