"There is a calculus, it turns out, for……" — Charles Duhigg
"There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how precisely they can sell."
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138 Quotes by Charles Duhigg
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Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
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Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled…
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Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages…
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