The Deductionist Podcast
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He Ran the UK's Fraud Squad. Now He Fights AI Fraud (opens the original)
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Ai is here and David Clarke spent his career catching fraudsters, first as a City of London Police Fraud Squad chief, then building the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau from the ground up. Now he's watching artificial intelligence industrialise the exact crime he built his life around stopping. This conversation is about what happens when the con artist never sleeps, never runs out of voices, and gets smarter every week. In this episode: David explains how AI has moved fraud from mass blast sc
Dark Triad At Work: How To Spot A Manipulator (opens the original)
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Your best performer might be running on narcissism, Machiavellianism, or psychopathy, and the org chart rewards it. This is the Dark Triad without the textbook, applied to the office and the relationships you can't just walk away from. In this episode: - What the Dark Triad actually is, and what it isn't (it's not a diagnosis) - The difference between admiration seeking and rivalrous narcissism at work - Why Machiavellianism plays the long game across quarters, not meetings - Corporate psychopat
Nudge Theory: How Choice Architecture Runs Your Life (opens the original)
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You didn't choose that option. Something built the room you chose it in, and it built the room before you walked in. In this episode: – What choice architecture actually is and why nudge theory changed behavioural economics – The organ donation study that proves a default can move outcomes by 75 percentage points – Why AI personalisation turned nudge theory from a blunt tool into an individual weapon – The decoy effect and how a bad third option sells the expensive one – Dark patterns: where leg
The Real Life Sherlock | Cain's Jawbone Ep 3 | Can't Cheat This (opens the original)
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I have been called a Real Life Sherlock by many folks I respect within Law Enforcement. Cain's Jawbone is the puzzle that gets to decide if that's actually earned. In 1942 a crossword got too easy, so the Daily Telegraph built one vicious enough to recruit five strangers into Bletchley Park without their knowledge. Cain's Jawbone runs the same test, except the Laurence Sterne Trust holds a verified solution, so every page I get right or wrong actually means something. In this episode: The true s
Close Protection Is Observation, Not Action (opens the original)
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Everyone thinks close protection is the suit, the earpiece, the guy scanning a crowd like he's in a Statham film. It isn't. It's advance work nobody sees, a plan already three versions deep before the principal arrives, and hundreds of hours of nothing happening on purpose. Jim Wenzel joins The Deductionist Podcast with Behavioural Intelligence to break down what close protection actually is: proactive prevention, not reactive tactics. We cover the POLAR framework (positioning, observable behavi
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