Gossip to me seems to be kind of a way of externalizing that. It all stems from like this insecurity that we all have, and we don't want to actually actively confront shit. So we use things. And I think increasingly VR will take it to a completely different level once it gets developed enough. That's the rise of incel culture; everything else is people, you know, video games for sure.
Rishi Rawat is the founder of Frictionless Commerce. As a world-class expert in buyer psychology and conversion optimization, Rishi has spent the past 13 years laser-focused on running marketing experiments that help eCommerce brands remove friction and massively increase sales.
In our conversation we dive into:
- Self-awareness as a superpower
- Intuition versus empirical data
- Delegation and installing your operating system into a team
- Busyness, laziness, and essentialism
- Specialization and the pursuit of excellence
- The placebo effect, gossip, and evolutionary psychology
- External and internal realities
- Consumerism and ethical marketing
- and much more...
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