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Me me me me, that’s what product development and marketing is all about these days. Give people individual experiences, let them customize, and choice choice choice. It didn’t used to be that way.
Here’s a link to a NY Times article from 2001 about the research Gladwell referrs to in the video. (Thanks to Frederick!)
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