Written by Amit Adarkar. Voiced by his AI clone.

A philosopher's donkey starved between two identical haystacks. Today we face forty-seven versions of the same cable. Amit looks at why more choice often makes us worse at choosing: the famous jam study and what happened when others tried to repeat it, the decoy that sells subscriptions, and who is quietly arranging the options now that AI picks for us.

00:00 A donkey between two haystacks

01:09 Part 1: The donkey who wasn't there

03:17 Part 2: The jam table

05:41 Part 3: The third haystack

07:33 Part 4: Who arranges your stable?

09:02 One idea to keep

Read the written version at random-walk.blog

Written by Amit Adarkar. Voiced by his AI clone.

Why would someone who has studied human behaviour for thirty years let a machine read his words? Amit explains where the name Random Walk comes from, why the blog is becoming a podcast, how his voice clone was made, and one habit that protects your family from voice-clone fraud.

00:00 The voice you're hearing

00:49 Part 1: The pollen grain and the drunkard

03:07 Part 2: Why a blog becomes a podcast

04:18 Part 3: Meet the clone

06:04 Part 4: What this means for the rest of us

07:34 One idea to keep

Read the written version at random-walk.blog