Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-11-18
Books mentioned on Terrible Journalism & Interesting Statistics - Rob Orchard - #399
Rob Orchard is a journalist and the co-founder and editor of Delayed Gratification Magazine. Journalism isn't working.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Everybody Lies
Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a fascinating examination of big data, exploring how anonymous internet search queries and digital footprints reveal people's true behaviors, desires, and biases that they would never admit in public, to a therapist, or even to themselves.
Discussed“and that book everybody lies there was a lot of stuff in that wasn't it because it has he has this lovely example um which is you know what people write about their partner on facebook as opposed to what they type into google about their partner”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book An Answer for Everything
“i agree rob orchard ladies and gentlemen an answer for everything 200 infographics to explain the world will be linked in the show notes below where else should people go if they want to hassle your company on what it is that you do”