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Intuitive Marketing: What Marketers Can Learn from Brain Science

Intuitive Marketing: What Marketers Can Learn from Brain Science

A new theory of marketing that explains how people actually think, learn, and choose in the modern marketplace.

2019

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Three Fires Are Burning Up the World: Greed, Hate, and Fear

They will consume us if we let them

Nov 3, 2023

A detail from Hieronymus Bosch’s famous painting, The Last Judgment. The image depicts people in Hell undergoing various forms of torture as punishment for their sins.

Nov 3, 2023

How to Destroy a Democracy: Inequality, Distrust, and the Myth of the “Far Left”

It took 44 years to make Americans unfit for democracy, but nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition

Mar 26

A screen grab from an episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, showing the three members of the “Spanish Inquisition” appearing unexpectedly in a comedy skit.

Mar 26

FAFO*: America’s Republican Base Is About to Have a Teachable Moment

It’s gonna hurt, a lot

Mar 15

In an historic black and white photo from the Library of Congress archives, impoverished Americans line up for food in San Antonio Texas during the Great Depression.

Mar 15

There Is a Big Difference Between “Doomers” and “Doomists”

I think they actually represent two very different attitudes toward the future

Jan 2

A screenshot from the animated movie, Ratatouille, showing the food critic who reviews the restaurant. He looks very judgmental and condescending. His stance and expression remind me of a Doomist criticizing some climate mitigation action or polity.

Jan 2

What Happens When an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object?

We’re about to find out

Dec 11, 2024

An automobile crashes into a brick wall. Image generated by Google Gemini.

Dec 11, 2024

Why We Need to Grow an Ecosocialist Party in America: Part 2

When America is ready for ideas that work, we’ll need political leaders who are ready with ideas that work

Nov 7, 2024

A clipart image of three podiums. The one in the middle is green, representing the Ecosocialist Party discussed in this and the previous post.

Nov 7, 2024

Why We Need to Grow an Ecosocialist Party in America: Part 1

America has no idea how to live after the end of fossil fuels. When the country is ready to listen, ecosocialism can provide the answers it…

Nov 7, 2024

A clipart image of three podiums. The one in the middle is green, representing the Ecosocialist Party discussed in this and the previous post.

Nov 7, 2024

How Does a Climate Change Realist Turn Into an Energy Transition Fatalist?

My one-sided tiff with Art Berman, energy analyst extraordinaire

Oct 23, 2024

An AI-generated image of a wizard in a field, waving his wand at an oil rig. He is surrounded by butterflies.

Oct 23, 2024

What I’ve Learned Writing About Energy Descent on Medium

After the fall, what comes next?

Sep 14, 2024

In a black and white image, young students sit in an overcrowded classroom in rural Kentucky, circa 1940. Some seem to be listening to the teacher, others seem distracted or bored.

Sep 14, 2024

What I’ve Learned Writing About the End of Oil on Medium

It’s sure looking like the loss of affordable oil will kickstart the economic collapse of modern capitalism

Sep 5, 2024

An old-time black and white photo of 4th grade students in a crowded classroom, from 1946. The students show various expressions: bored, asleep, distracted. This represents how I feel about trying to understand how our age of oil might end.

Sep 5, 2024

Steve Genco

Steve Genco

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Steve is author of Intuitive Marketing (2019) & Neuromarketing for Dummies (2013). He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University.

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