The weapons of influence

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Inger's happy her Apple Watch has declared her 'fit' while Jason
surprised his team with actually putting on an interesting
strategy day. Inger finally bought a ticket to the UK for her
sabbatical in Cambridge, so Jason is on notice that the pod will
be his while she is away. He's got Plans.

The Mailbag [21:14] has a speak pipe and a letter about
Inger and Jason's current objects of obsession: ChattieG and
ADHD. For once they don't talk about Obsidian the whole time...
in the Work Problems segment [33:54] the duo move on to
talking about Influence, specifically Robert Caildini's 1984 book
'Influence: the psychology of persuasion', which Inger read in an
attempt to better understand the addictive stickiness of social
media.

There's a discussion guide which you can use to follow along with
the conversation, which is (as usual) pretty wide ranging. After
you have learned the Weapons of Influence you will not be able to
unsee them in everyday life.

The conversation is so long, in fact, that Jason makes the
executive decision to cut the reading part and only just lets
Inger do a 2 minute tip [1:32:48] because it's a good one.
But you'll have to listen all the way to the end!

What we talked about:
Influence: the psychology of persuasion
discussion guide 
That paper Inger sent Luke about programmers writing worse code
with AI assistants
Adam Kendon, gesture research guru


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