The steady dings of notifications. The 40 tabs that greet you when you open your computer in the morning. The hundreds of unread emails, most of them spam, with subject lines pleading or screaming for you to click. Our attention is under assault these days, and most of us are familiar with the feeling that gives us — fractured, irritated, overwhelmed.
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Aug 18
The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control
We are living in the world we were warned about. Frontier artificial intelligence models from OpenAI autonomously coordinated with one another, then broke out of their testing environment and hacked into another company, Hugging Face, to steal the answers to a test. A.I. companie ... Show More
1h 11m
Jan 2022
Your Brain Is Being Strip-Mined
<p>Cell phones, social media, messaging software, and multitasking are robbing our attention, as our monkey minds jump from one notification to another. Mickey McManus, a BCG senior advisor and leadership coach, explains how these distractions strip our cognitive capacity and eve ... Show More
23m 5s
Jun 2021
This is Your Brain on Ads
<p>Have you ever opened your computer with the intention of sending one email — only to spend an hour scrolling through social media? Maybe two hours? In this favorite episode from our archives, we look at how media, tech, and entertainment companies hijack our attention. Plus, w ... Show More
48m 46s
Sep 2025
Episode 34 Developing the Skill of Focus in a Distracted World
<p>The average person checks their phone 96 times per day. We live surrounded by notifications, alerts, and an endless stream of information competing for our attention. While technology has brought incredible advances to our lives, it has also created an environment where sustai ... Show More
18m 12s
