Scott Galloway — NYU Stern School of Business professor and co-host of our Pivot podcast — is known for opining on and forecasting the world of big tech companies, having famously predicted Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods on Recode Decode. He wrote about the most important tech companies in the world in his first book, The Four, but then decided it was time for something completely different; for his second book, Galloway decided to try to crack The Algebra of Happiness.
“You can get happiness from Chipotle, Cialis, and Netflix,” he said on the latest episode of Recode Decode. “All those things will bring you short-term happiness. I think when we really talk about meaningful happiness, we talk about investments we make through the course of our lives and decisions in forgiveness we provide ourselves and other people, such that at the end of our life, we feel like we built a narrative of satisfaction.”
On the new podcast, Galloway talked about how he and others…
