The Icarus Deception

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• bindley · Mar 22, 2014 · Recommends

  …entrance to a career, and later learned that wasn't the case. People value unique skills, not cookie cutter graduates. You're asking some deep life questions, that extend outside programming. a book: The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin really helped me when I was at a place you're in right now. Helped me understand how really successful people do it. hope that helps :)

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• bennesvig · Dec 25, 2012 · Recommends

  "Mastery" by Robert Greene. "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzkin. "The Icarus Deception" by Seth Godin.

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• thestartupguy · Feb 23, 2013 · Recommends

  Thank you Bubs. The work your doing is so important and needed by our community. I've just finished Seth Godin's 'The Icarus Deception' and your post truly resembles art.

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• bynkman · Mar 6, 2017 · Recommends

  …Cheese by Spencer Johnson. An allegory about how our modern jobs are changing. Mindset by Carol Dweck. About the belief of fixed mindset vs a growth or learning mindset, and the effects of both. The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin. How our industrial (conformity) economy has evolved into a connection (post-industrial) economy, and what it takes to survive in this new world.

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• jasallen · Jun 27, 2013 · Mentions

  …I'm bootstrapping now, and have a reasonable amount of runway. Even still I will occasionally have a night out, and I can afford business investments that make sense. Currently reading Seth Godin's Icarus Deception, and to put it in his terms, I think the idea of having a job and spending >80% of your income on a rolling basis really plays into the industrial machine that wants to keep us as good little cogs.

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• nonoesp · Feb 9, 2025 · Mentions

  …Something extra and not part of what you created. If you play a beautiful song for two people or a thousand, it’s the same song, and the amount of thanks you receive isn’t part of that song." (Seth Godin, The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?)

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• stefek99 · Mar 22, 2014 · Mentions

  I read most of the comments, except of 2-3 vey long essays (short attention span). On my way to work (living wage) I'll be listening to: - Millionaire Fastlane - Icarus Deception I miss my freedom so much. Working because I have to pay off the car that is getting me to work. #insane

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