# unconscious (blogs) — RSS Amplifier

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## [Confirmshaming a machine](https://theunconsciousconsumer.substack.com/p/confirmshaming-a-machine)

_2026-07-15 · Adam Spadaro · The Unconscious Consumer_

The tricks that preyed on human feeling are dying. The ones dressed as facts are getting stronger.

## [Acquired taste, literally](https://theunconsciousconsumer.substack.com/p/acquired-taste-literally)

_2026-07-10 · Adam Spadaro · The Unconscious Consumer_

You think a recommendation engine found your taste. It may have built it.

## [The Unpriced Discount](https://theunconsciousconsumer.substack.com/p/the-unpriced-discount)

_2026-07-04 · Adam Spadaro · The Unconscious Consumer_

The case for treating an underpaid star, or a cheap hire, as a bill you've deferred rather than a discount you've banked.

## [The Unlearning Curve](https://theunconsciousconsumer.substack.com/p/the-unlearning-curve)

_2026-06-30 · Adam Spadaro · The Unconscious Consumer_

The novice was never the one at risk. When mastering a tool stops being necessary, it's the expert's fluency that gets marked to zero.

## [Repriced Overnight](https://theunconsciousconsumer.substack.com/p/repriced-overnight)

_2026-06-19 · Adam Spadaro · The Unconscious Consumer_

Your tools didn’t get worse. You just met something that made them look it.

## [Why Product Teams Misunderstand Their Customers](https://theunconsciousconsumer.substack.com/p/why-product-teams-misunderstand-their)

_2026-03-09 · Adam Spadaro · The Unconscious Consumer_

Companies have more behavioural data than ever...and still misunderstand their users.

## [February's Over. The Gym Is Empty Again.](https://theunconsciousconsumer.substack.com/p/februarys-over-the-gym-is-empty-again)

_2026-03-02 · Adam Spadaro · The Unconscious Consumer_

How the gap between what we say we’ll do and what we actually do shapes decisions, from gym habits to product strategy.

## [Coming soon](https://theunconsciousconsumer.substack.com/p/coming-soon)

_2026-02-26 · Adam Spadaro · The Unconscious Consumer_

This is The Unconscious Consumer.

## [Gabriel Tarde on Belief and Desire](https://culturecog.blog/2025/05/03/gabriel-tarde-on-belief-and-desire/)

_2025-05-04 · Michael Strand · Culture, Cognition, and Action (culturecog)_

How did the late 19th and early 20th century French sociologist Gabriel Tarde understand belief and desire? He did so with much novelty, I want to argue, because he did not associate either belief or desire with “content” (see Hutto 2013). Neither did he associate them with what we might call today qualitative data. Consider Continue reading Gabriel Tarde on Belief and Desire

## [Daily plans, scheduled by AI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HQvdAlfmZDu6)

_2025-05-04 · **Sponsored**_

AI-made daily plans that schedule tasks and protect focus time.

## [The MAGA schematic narrative template](https://culturecog.blog/2025/02/11/the-maga-schematic-narrative-template/)

_2025-02-11 · Tuukka Kaidesoja · Culture, Cognition, and Action (culturecog)_

In a previous post, I discussed the concept of a schematic narrative template coined by psychologist and social anthropologist James V. Wertsch. In this post, I employ this concept to analyze President Donald Trump’s political rhetoric, which relies on the slogan “Make America Great Again”. I claim that when this slogan is embedded in the Continue reading The MAGA schematic narrative template