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Second short story not as exciting as the first one.

Only who suffers can write?

It seems like you can write only if you are depressed, friends dying, or parents with cancer.

Listen to your broccoli!

"we need to believe that reorienting our various cultures of decision-making may be the only civilised way forward."

Stronger and deeper comparison and similarities between physical spaces and information spaces.

Digital environments influence us as much as physical places.
The influencing power of nudges in designing environments.
The ubiquity and pervasive presence of advertising: buying and selling attention.

The three social influences that we have emphasized—information, peer pressure, and priming—can easily be enlisted by private and public nudgers. As we will see, both business and governments can use the power of social influence to promote many good (and bad) causes.

Resisting temptation.
Following the herd.