This week's must-reads: Why Amazon is eating the world

This week's must-reads: Why Amazon is eating the world

In my work as a behavioral designer, I come across stories on the importance of using psychology to influence behavior. Here's my weekly round-up of the most important stories at the intersection of psychology, technology, and business.

Why Amazon is eating the world

Amazon has been systematically rebuilding each of its internal tools as an externally consumable service. 

How to Use Psychology to Make Persuasive Video

Compared to other media types on the web, video is unique in the immediacy with which it can convey a vast amount of emotional and informational content to its viewers. 

What Plato knew about behavioural economics. (A lot)

How much did Plato know about behavioural economics and cognitive biases? Pretty much everything, it turns out

How Google Took Over the Classroom

The tech giant is transforming public education with low-cost laptops and free apps. But schools may be giving Google more than they are getting.

What know-it-alls don’t know, or the illusion of competence

One day in 1995, a large, heavy middle-aged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. He didn’t wear a mask or any sort of disguise.

Virtual and Augmented Realities: Asking the right questions and traveling the path ahead

The past year has been big for virtual and augmented reality: new VR hardware for consumers came to market, from smartphone-powered options…

Google, Not the Government, Is Building the Future

Without greater federal funding of cutting-edge technologies, corporations such as Google will be the ones that own the future.

Acquisition is Easy. Retention is Hard.

Acquiring new customers used to be really hard in SaaS. Most companies were limited to either banner ads via Google AdWords, or SEO.

Systems of Intelligence: Is this the VC meta-thesis we’ve been looking for?

A look at Systems of Intelligence, barriers to entry, and enterprise VC investing in the post-SaaS world

Nir Eyal is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and blogs about the psychology of products at NirAndFar.com. For more insights on changing behavior, join his free newsletter and receive a free workbook.





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Edmond Major III

Highly interested in cybercrime research, OSINT, phishing, threat intelligence, and keeping your grandma from getting phished.

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Slightly off-topic but that robot (The Method built by Hankook Mirae Technology in South Korea) in the image used here sucks and is basically just for show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmy-lwcsu78

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Hopefully we don't become too reliant on just one company .

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Jonathan Lybrook

Unix/Linux System Administrator

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Great article Zack Kanter!

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Sean Wilson

Person with a positive outlook

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well then we'll have a global government called 'the great amazon', sounds like it's right out of a novel.

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