"It seems like Facebook to me and the Google's are just a natural, you know, a natural conclusion to that this fucked up weird experiment we got going on," he says. "I go back and forth between how much Facebook is to actually blame." He also questions George Bush's advice after 9/11: 'The way to be patriotic is to buy stuff' The author doesn't believe new products are making our lives better but thinks there could be a lesson in their existence.
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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