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Chris Hayes on the attention economy
A conversation about how attention was commodified, why it's so easy to steal, where industry is looking for new supplies, and whether democracy can survive this.
‘Are We Participating in a Thing That Is Not Even Working?’
Chris Gethard on the end of the middle-class comedy job.
Rethinking the cognitive foundations of the attention economy
The attention economy is the economic system in which human attention is the scarce resource. This literature takes a particular passage in Herbert Simon’s seminal Chapter Designing Organization fo...
The Steve Ballmer Interview
How to reclaim your attention from the distraction economy | Psyche Videos
Could you watch this video on full screen, 1x speed, with no distractions? Here are five steps to rebuild your attention span
Special episode: Apps vs Files with Gordon Brander, Peter van Hardenberg & Jess Martin.
S8 EP8: Gary Stevenson discusses his Mormon upbringing, sparring with Rory Stewart and why a wealth tax could save the economy
How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable
The episode highlights the reactionary approach to a technology that is moving at breakneck speed.
Politechs Episode 12 - Decomputing - Dan McQuillan
Josh and Ray talk decomputing with Dr. Dan McQuillan.
Episode #210 ... The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire, Education)
This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst
Podcast Episode · Plain English with Derek Thompson · 09/23/2025 · 59m
013 - Olivier De Schutter on Why the Economy Creates Poverty – and How To Fix It
EP 336 Rufus Pollock on the Wisdom Gap and the Second Renaissance
The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh
Chicago beat-maker Thelonious Martin on his new EP and the future of television
We caught up with the Chicago native to talk about making his 25-minute masterpiece.
Ted’s Thoughts
Ted Han’s thoughts about journalism, technology, civilization, art and a bunch of other things.