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Rory Sutherland on Lenny’s Podcast:
Products like Meta Portal TV, Google Glass, Japanese toilets, and wine boxes were amazing products but something about the timing or the marketing was wrong and the consumer never bit
Rory on Japanese toilets: “I think it’s barbaric that the Western Hemisphere dry wipes.”
The reason most people adopt new technology


Rory Sutherland on why group decision making is often worse than personal judgement https://t.co/Gj6CRLLF40
But, actually, it's suddenly come to me after years working in the business, that what we create in advertising, which is intangible value -- you might call it perceived value, you might call it badge value, subjective value, intangible value of some kind -- gets rather a bad rap. If you think about it, if you want to live in a world in the future ... See more
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player.fmAlchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
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From David Ogilvy:
... See moreThrough maddening repetition, some of my obiter dicta have been woven into our culture. Here are some of them:
(1) “We sell – or else."
(2) “You cannot bore people into buying your product; you can only interest them in buying it.”
(3) "We prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance. We pursue knowledge the way a p
Patrick Collison on Stripe:
“My intuition is that more of Stripe success than one would think is down to the fact that people like beautiful things and for rational reasons.
Because, what does a beautiful thing tell you? It tells you the person who made it really cared, and you can observe some superficial details, but probably they didn’t only ... See more