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Give the reader a puzzle first

The question is spoken directly. Duhigg gives it personal stakes through customer privacy.

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The Power of Habit coverThe Power of HabitCharles Duhigg · 34 weeks
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“Andrew Pole had just started working as a data expert for Target when a few colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk one day and asked the kind of question Pole had been born to answer: “Can your computers figure out which customers are pregnant, even if they don’t want us to know?””

Chapter 7 · How Target Knows What You Want Before You Do

THE OBSERVATION

The question is spoken directly. Duhigg gives it personal stakes through customer privacy.

KEEP THE SCOPE VISIBLE

The chapter’s first two prose paragraphs, complete, after its title, subtitle and subsection label I.

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