@HarrisoSteve@davetrott@VikkiRossWrites I loved this book last year. Alongside @thetenzer amd others, it gave us confidence we were on to something when we set up @theNin9tyNin9rs. So it was especially exciting to be interviewed by Steve and featured in the new edition. Go and read it!
5. Weird > Average
• If you optimize for the mean, you optimize for nobody.
• The average person doesn't exist - it's just a blended mean of 7 billion people.
• If you design an idea for them, you design an idea for nobody.
According to Facebook’s Ads Library report, Biden’s campaign spent $6.1 million on 19,336 different ads with his Facebook Page between Oct. 25 and Oct. 31 while Trump’s campaign spent $2.9 million on 53,817 different ads for his page. https://t.co/QLnVVutuWA
How can brands build their own #firstpartydata?
NEW blog post looks at the growing data-gap between brands and retailers and what brands can do about it, referencing examples from successful #DTC models
#DataDriven#ecommerce#cx#customercentricity
https://t.co/sUxtayGvDF
I’m optimistically believe the world is more data literate than it was 4 years ago.
But if one of those 12 comes in, it’s game over.
. @FiveThirtyEight
Top Ten Myths of Popular Psychology
Great Skeptic Magazine piece by the late, great Scott Lilienfeld et al., excerpted from their book 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology.
https://t.co/sCn3DAmE8L HT @michaelshermer
Today, I’m thinking about that old chestnut of the difference between causation and correlation. Here is the wonderful @TimHarford with the classic story of storks and babies. And a warning against too much statistical scepticism. https://t.co/MJFauivGjZ
Unmanned, digital-enabled small convenience stores in locations that otherwise wouldn't have a supermarket. This is such a smart idea and there has to be a market for this in the UK https://t.co/vZyxF2kzDb
“Being too out of touch, too “London”, too metropolitan and too elitist are accusations that have been levelled at many industries. But for a sector that trades on its ability to connect with people, this looks like a failure of investment and of imagination.”