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In this episode, Sarah Bowen and Merle Van Den Akker talk to Rory Sutherland. The conversation takes many interesting twists and turns including: How does innovative thinking and knowledge accumulation differ in business compared to academia? What is the problem with data (particularly big data)? Why did it take a pandemic for people to start working from home? Listen to the episode to discover what is it that connects cryptic crosswords, a keen interest in true crime, evolutionary, and behavioural science!
Links mentioned:
Rory’s reading list
The books that sold Rory on behavioural science
True Crime and the Golden State Killer:
Other links
Soviet innovation methodology TRIZ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
Why the hell does a kangaroo jump? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/when-did-kangaroos-start-hop
Follow @quaesita (Cassie Kozyrkov, Head of Decision Intelligence @ Google) on twitter: https://twitter.com/quaesita
Finding Rory Sutherland:
Rory’s twitter (@rorysutherland): https://twitter.com/rorysutherland
Nudgestock (@nudgestuck)
Questioning Behaviour Socials:
By questioningbehaviourIn this episode, Sarah Bowen and Merle Van Den Akker talk to Rory Sutherland. The conversation takes many interesting twists and turns including: How does innovative thinking and knowledge accumulation differ in business compared to academia? What is the problem with data (particularly big data)? Why did it take a pandemic for people to start working from home? Listen to the episode to discover what is it that connects cryptic crosswords, a keen interest in true crime, evolutionary, and behavioural science!
Links mentioned:
Rory’s reading list
The books that sold Rory on behavioural science
True Crime and the Golden State Killer:
Other links
Soviet innovation methodology TRIZ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
Why the hell does a kangaroo jump? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/when-did-kangaroos-start-hop
Follow @quaesita (Cassie Kozyrkov, Head of Decision Intelligence @ Google) on twitter: https://twitter.com/quaesita
Finding Rory Sutherland:
Rory’s twitter (@rorysutherland): https://twitter.com/rorysutherland
Nudgestock (@nudgestuck)
Questioning Behaviour Socials: