Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me – #7 Dan Ariely

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]

PBTO50: Understanding Why We do, What We do with Dilip Soman

http://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/50_PBTO50__Creating_Choice_Architecture_that_Works_for_You.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSS Who is on the show: In this episode we host, Dr. Dilip Soman. He is a behaviour scientist and the author of the book  The Last Mile, and is a Professor of Marketing and holds the Corus Chair in Communications Strategy. His researches behavioural economics and its applications to consumer wellbeing, marketing and policy. He is also the director of the India Innovation Institute at the University of Toronto. He works with ideas42 and serves as advisor to a number of welfare organizations. Why is she on the show: In his […]

20 Insanely Interesting People I Came to Know in 2016

One of the things I do over time is to discover new people and learn from new sources. I had shared my earlier list of 25 insanely interesting people in 2014. You can find that list here. So, here is a list of some of the insanely interesting people that i came across in 2016. I do hope you will find some of these people and the great work that they are doing interesting enough to start following them. I must say that I was fortunate enough to discover these people online and learn so much from them. I do hope that […]