Oliver Sweet
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April 21, 2026
Rules and Play: The Invisible Boundaries That Limit Us, and How To Break Them
In this episode, we step into the often-invisible world of cultural scripts—the unwritten rules that shape what we see, what we ignore, and even how we work and create. We begin with the unforgettable story of world-class violinist Joshua Bell playing incognito in a D.C. metro station, and explore why only children stopped to listen. Our first guest, Oliver Sweet, head of ethnography at Ipsos and author of The Rules That Make Us, reveals how culture acts like an unseen operating system, shapi...
Guests: Oliver Sweet , Piera Gelardi