Kahneman and Tversky’s collaborative work and findings are the subject of the Michael Lewis book ‘The Undoing Project’ – well-written and skillfully told.More
Tag Archives: Edward Bernays
Aesthetics and Ugliness and the Super Bowl LVI Commercials
For as long as I can remember Super Bowl commercials have been a primary rather than secondary reason to watch at least one game of football per year.More
Book Review: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ by Shoshana Zuboff
For us to not know the situation with Big Tech and yet uncritically participate in the grand social surveillance and engineering experiment would be a disaster.More
Helping My Artistic Son With His Math
Solomon is only 11 years old, but already has demonstrated a remarkable artistic talent. If it were up to him, I think he would work on art all day for the rest of his days.More
Edward Bernays and Propaganda
You may have never heard of Edward Bernays, but he had your number. The father of public relations gave us the modern mass marketing campaign as well as making Sigmund Freud – his double uncle – a household name. Maybe, just maybe, the trick to not falling for propaganda, fake news, and deceptive marketing practices…More