From the Archive: GG Alcock and the Economy Nobody Could See (Episode 32)
This episode is narrated by David's AI voice — a digital copy of his voice he uses so the show keeps going on the days he can't record.
Show notes
David revisits Episode 32 of Watts Involved with GG Alcock, the author and marketer who grew up in a Zulu village and spent a career making South Africa's township economy visible to the people who'd been trained not to see it. It's an episode about invisibility — how whole markets, and whole people, get silenced by the categories we use — and the mechanism behind why your brain discounts what it can't count. The tool this week comes from Chapter Six of David's book, Cracking The Influence Code: speak their language, not your translation of it.
Hear the full original conversation with GG Alcock, Episode 32: https://wattsinvolved.com/episodes/gg-alcock-kasinomics-the-township-economy-in-south-africa/
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