The Reading List

Thi is just an ongoing list of things to read or watch

Foundational / most-recommended

  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — Robert Cialdini
  • Pre-Suasion — Robert Cialdini
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman (dense, plan to take it slow)
  • Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely
  • Nudge — Richard Thaler

Consumer behavior & decision-making

  • Paradox of Choice — Barry Schwartz
  • The Art of Choosing — Sheena Iyengar
  • Decoded — Phil Barden
  • Why We Buy — Paco Underhill
  • Consumer Behavior — Schiffman (textbook)
  • Spent — Geoffrey Miller
  • Brand Seduction — Daryl Weber

Persuasion & negotiation

Behavioral biases / advertising

  • The Choice Factory — Richard Shotton (one commenter pushed back, calling it poorly sourced)
  • The Anatomy of Humbug — Paul Feldwick

Dark patterns / addictive design

  • Addiction by Design — Natasha Dow Schüll (slot machines, casino architecture)
  • Hooked — Nir Eyal

Sensory / color / iconography

  • Drunk Tank Pink — Adam Alter
  • The Iconist — Jamie Mustard

Cross-cultural

  • 7 Secrets of Marketing in a Multi-cultural World — Clotaire Rapaille

Also mentioned

  • Anything by Martin Lindstrom
  • Psycho Marketing (author not named in thread)

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=open+claw+optimization

-need to look into clustering algorithms to vet sentiment online, comments presumably.

zapier to agent integration- might be a low code way of getting cron to work without having to spend tokens on api calls via claude: https://docs.zapier.com/sdk/quickstart

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