I remember reading a story in "Trust Me, I'm Lying; Confessions of a Media Manipulator" where the agent of an author wasn't getting any good marketing coverage for his client's new book, so the agent starting pulling the "angry consumer" shtick, calling/writing into different media outlets (bloggers, radio, etc..), pretending to be pissed off about the book. No one had heard of it, but eventually some of them started writing about how insulting & disgusting it was, just based on the agent's complaint.
It worked. No publicity is bad publicity.
edit: Since people are seeing this, you should read this book. The guy (former American Apparel advertising exec) did this tell-all book because he saw the media's standards dropping and his industry's tricks starting to be used in things like politics. It will destroy your confidence in ever believing anything you read on the internet, reddit definitely included. Good for honing your bullshit detector.
edit 2: I am not affiliated in any way with this book. You are not being manipulated ��
As much as I wanna say this guy is a douchebag/idiot and karma will come back around... that’s not how the internet works. We’re all giving him free press right now.
https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulator/dp/1591846285
Redditors on almost any other topic: "FUCK baby boomers they drained the economy they are taking everything for themselves they own all the houses they leave nothing for the future."
Redditors when I say I'm opposed to raising SS benefits because the majority of the federal budget shouldn't go to Boomer retirees (SS + Medicare): "Fuck you you greedy corporate shill."
The idiocy is astounding. Social Security is an important social safety net, but it crowds out private savings and it therefore diminishes the capital stock for private investment. Medicare and SS are the two biggest chunks of the federal budget, and they crowd out economic growth.
I'd much rather see the 401(k) and IRA tax-free contribution caps doubled, and see some sort of program to Nudge companies into automatically enrolling workers into private savings plans--especially lower-end workers.
If you're interested in reading about this and other subtle strategies used to influence, I suggest you check out the book influence: the psychology of persuasion. It's one of my faves. It details:
All very interesting stuff that you can see in action every day.
You should read Trust me I’m Lying by Ryan Holiday. It brilliantly digs into the media ecosystem and explains exactly why you are right.
Spoiler: media went through this in the early 1900s when newspapers were sold individually. Subscriptions to papers is what Bred modern journalism as a virtuous pursuit like we understand it.
Wow, that sounds really intense. I would look into finding a therapist or counselor who does somatic therapy (here's the first article I found about it on Google). It's impossible to know whether it will fix your back issues, but I would guess it could be really helpful for working through your childhood traumas.
Many years ago I recovered completely from repetitive stress injury after reading The Mindbody Prescription by John Sarno and going through some intense self-therapy and journaling. I found the book a bit too Freudian for my taste, but the basic concept of some pain being psychosomatic struck a cord.
That hard yank on the emotions drives urgency. Too hard a yank is 9 times out of 10 your clue of a financial scheme.
Recommended reading, "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion"
This was the wake up call for me. When the founders of social media admit they are manipulating your subconscious to addict you to their product I knew I had to make a change. This is the modern tobacco industry. Look into advertising as well and how it manipulates you on a subconscious level. Propaganda by Bernays lays the groundwork on public relations and the modern advertising industry. Make no mistake, social media is an advertising business - and you are being exploited. Don't let people use you.
>I wonder whether online work changed things because there are few occasions for people to have conversations that socialize them into the ethical expectations of the profession.
Journalism didn't have ethical expectations a hundred years ago, because every story was sold on 'hot sheets', cheap 2-page papers sold by newsies. The most sensational headlines made the most money and there was zero accountability.
Then for 50+ years, journalists became dependent on monthly newspaper subscriptions and reputation and audience trust became paramount. Suddenly, ethics were necessary to do the job.
Now, news is all click-driven and we're back to zero accountability. Trust Me, I'm Lying is a great book about our current era of news and how it can be manipulated.
Social proof in action. Long queues signal that if other people are willing to wait for the food, the stall's food must be good. It is a form of heuristic people use to make decisions about what is good or not. However, the long queue could be a result of slow cooking process, or the stall used to be good so but because the cook changed, the standard went down but people still queue based on the reputation of the stall. The book, "
Also if you queue for a long time, by the time you get your food, you are very hungry so anything tastes nice!
I don’t think it is throwing shade, rather just a genuine description of Thaler and his work. Even Thaler describes himself as lazy and irrational. Most of his academic work is pointing out flawed human thought processes, and behavioral economists have only recently started to apply “nudges” to have positive real world outcomes.
+1 for this. "I'm not a programmer, but I work well with them and can translate for them to non-technical people." is exactly what a PM is. You might find this book valuable.
Totally! It's less of an ideology than it is a mechanism for implementing your ideology, whatever that happens to be. But someone who called himself a Marxist wrote about it passionately, so here we are.
The best example of the 'capitalist' version of this (that actually came out a year before Gramsci's main writings) is Propaganda by Edward Bernays. Who was Sigmund Freud's nephew.
As easy and righteous as it is to dismiss the alarmists, it would also be naive to think that powerful forces were not attempting to influence culture with media use. But that has to be at least as old as language.
I concur. $9 on Amazon for those interested.
You are right. And it doesn't apply only to TV, but other media as well.
There's an excellent book about the subject: Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Io consiglio vivamente il libro che sto leggendo in questi giorni: Robert Cialdini - Influence - The Psychology Of Persuasion.
Spiega molti meccanismi con numerosi esempi, copre anche quello di cui la ragazza cui fa riferimento OP è rimasta vittima.
https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulator/dp/1591846285/
“I am, to put it bluntly, a media manipulator—I’m paid to deceive. My job is to lie to the media so they can lie to you. I cheat, bribe, and connive for bestselling authors and billion-dollar brands and abuse my understanding of the internet to do it.”
Maybe there's an online copy, but if that seems insightful, you may enjoy this groundbreaking book:
https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Robert-Cialdini/dp/006124189X
I learned many of those mental tricks through sales experience.
https://www.amazon.com/Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body-Pain/dp/0446675156
Hey, I've struggled with chronic pain this past year which I finally resolved by reading the book linked above. Sometimes chronic pain conditions can have a source rooted in emotion, not your physiological structure. It wouldn't hurt to look into!
Hope you find your path - you got this!
You will never win an argument by presenting your facts and proving that your adversary is wrong. They will never admit that no matter how clear your argument is (unless you are arguing with someone whose job it is to be open minded e.g. scientists)
You will get much further by influence and persuasion. Influence by Robert Cialdini worked very well for me in this regards.
It all comes down to nice behaviour because it's a great way of exploiting the social principle of [reciprocity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(social_psychology\)).
If someone's being nice to you, giving you compliments, flirting with you, giving you free stuff, they want something. Maybe not right away, but it creates an expectation that the "niceness" should be returned.
An example of this is people seeking donations. They'll give free gifts to make you feel obligated to give something back.
Check out the book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini. He goes into various ways that our behaviours can be influenced, and talks a bit about how to handle being manipulated.
Part of growing up is realizing this is simply how the world works. Most things are transactional. There's always an exchange, a give and take involved on some level.
Key point to note is that it doesn't work for sex. You can't negotiate attraction. My personal opinion is that this is why people that are successful in business, typically, aren't successful with women, and vice versa, because they require opposing strategies.
Hi SpaceTaco - happy to be here!
There are a lot of resources out there but I think fundamentally you should understand what a product manager is and what a product manager isn't. I have interviewed quite a bit for junior product manager roles and whether it is a role for someone straight out of university or someone with a year or two of product management experience, I like to see intellectually curious individuals who can work well together in a team environment (i.e., communicate effectively), are empathetic to the end customer, and can start to think about how to invest time and resources.
Tactically for interviews, two resources I found pretty helpful when I was doing PM interviews was Cracking the PM Interview and Inspired but there are plenty of other online resources out there that can help! If more is needed i am happy to link to some online resources I found useful.
It's not us.
"Gossip" can bind groups, and it can tear them asunder. The hedgies have clearly hired top tier social engineering talent. It's a $10 word for troll and others.
I would suggest reading the seminal "Influence" by author Cialdini. It's a fascinating, highly readable pre-woke, ie, real science, examination of social human behaviors.
>https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Robert-Cialdini/dp/006124189X
As noted, do SFAS selection preparation and you'll be ok physically. Read Influence and Verbal Judo.
Also, DM me if you have other questions.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert Cialdini amazon
Cracking the PM Interview here: https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-PM-Interview-Product-Technology/dp/0984782818/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535773043&sr=8-1&keywords=cracking+the+pm+interview would be a good place to start :)
Cialdini is a good go-to for this type of stuff. Here's his popular press book, it contains academic citations for everything he discusses.
Predictably Irrational. Drunkard's Walk was pretty good too from what I remember.
I sell an online CD/download (well, used to). After reading "Predictably Irrational", which is not by Thaler, but based on his concepts of how we make irrational decisions, I changed the pricing on my content, and sales shot up.
https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expanded-Decisions/dp/0061353248