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The Dip

Seth Godin · 2007 · 80 pages

2 people have this book on the record — 0 of 2 verdicts positive. The dissent stays on the page.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Rakhim Davletkaliyev read it
Short, concise, quite important to me. I have troubles deciding when to quit, and I think I made multiple mistakes of not recognizing the context in which making a decision (any decision!) was paramount.

on rakhim.org · 16 Aug 2026

Jason Evanish mixed on it affiliate
TLDR; if you're struggling but feel like you're onto something, you probably are just going through "the Dip"/"trough of sorrow". If you like Seth Godin, you'll enjoy this book. It's a quick read, so it won't waste your time with too much filler on a concept that is worthy of understanding.

on jasonevanish.com · 28 Oct 2020

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.