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Average rating4.1
I went into this book not really realising what it was about, so it is partly my fault that I didn't enjoy it, but: What I was hoping for was a book about personal habit forming, and trying to adjust habits at an individual level, with an aim towards helping people.
What I got was a book about the large-scale ways that sales people, marketers, data scientists and leaders of organisations have manipulated large groups of people out of their money or free will without them knowing.
The book approaches this from the lens of the organisation, framing it to talk about how fascinating and brilliant and clever and amazing all these innovations are, and it leaves me wanting to quit the internet, never interact with a store again, and live under a rock for the rest of my life.
But there is like a half a chapter at the end about how to change your own habits as an individual I guess.