Your Undivided Attention
Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology
Your Undivided Attention
Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology
Tuesday 21 September 2021 : On September 13th, the Wall Street Journal released The Facebook Files, an ongoing investigation of the extent to which Facebook's problems...
Friday 03 September 2021 : What is the goal of our digital information environment? Is it simply to inform us, or also to empower us to act? The Solutions Journalism...
Thursday 12 August 2021 : How do we decide whether to undergo a transformative experience when we don’t know how that experience will change us? This is the central...
Friday 23 July 2021 : When author and journalist James Nestor began researching a piece on free diving, he was stunned. He found that free divers could hold their...
Friday 09 July 2021 : In September of 2020, on her last day at Facebook, data scientist Sophie Zhang posted a 7,900-word memo to the company's internal site. In...
Friday 25 June 2021 : We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more....
Friday 25 June 2021 : We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more....
Monday 10 May 2021 : Back in January 2020, Tristan Harris went to Washington, D.C. to testify before the U.S. Congress on the harms of social media. A few weeks...
Thursday 29 April 2021 : Can hypnosis be a tool to help us see how our minds are being shaped and manipulated more than we realize? Guest Anthony Jacquin is a...
Thursday 22 April 2021 : [This episode originally aired May 21, 2020] Internationally-recognized global leader on climate change Christiana Figueres argues that the...
Thursday 15 April 2021 : What do you think the other side thinks? Guest Dan Vallone is the Director of More in Common U.S.A., an organization that’s been asking...
Thursday 08 April 2021 : The film Coded Bias follows MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini through her investigation of algorithmic discrimination, after she...
Thursday 01 April 2021 : How many technologists have traveled to Niger, or the Balkans, or Rwanda, to learn the lessons of peacebuilding? Technology and social media...
Thursday 18 March 2021 : Disinformation researchers have been fighting two battles over the last decade: one to combat and contain harmful information, and one to...
Thursday 04 March 2021 : It’s no revelation that Americans aren’t getting along. But it’s easier to diagnose the problem than come up with solutions. The...
Thursday 11 February 2021 : When Kate Raworth began studying economics, she was disappointed that the mainstream version of the discipline didn’t fully address many...
Friday 15 January 2021 : Yuval Noah Harari is one of the rare historians who can give us a two-million-year perspective on today’s headlines. In this wide-ranging...
Wednesday 23 December 2020 : You’ve heard us talk before on this podcast about the pitfalls of trying to moderate a “global public square.” Our guest today, Eli...
Tuesday 27 October 2020 : We are in the midst of a teen mental health crisis. Since 2011, the rate of U.S. hospitalizations for preteen girls who have self-harmed is...
Tuesday 06 October 2020 : Today’s extremists don’t need highly produced videos like ISIS. They don’t need deep pockets like Russia. With the right message, a...
Wednesday 09 September 2020 : A new documentary called The Social Dilemma comes out on Netflix today, September 9, 2020. We hope that this film, full of interviews with...
Wednesday 02 September 2020 : This summer, Facebook unveiled “2Africa,” a subsea cable project that will encircle nearly the entire continent of Africa — much to...
Thursday 06 August 2020 : In 1940, a group of 60 American intellectuals formed the Committee for National Morale. “They’ve largely been forgotten,” says Fred...
Thursday 23 July 2020 : Imagine a world where every country has a digital minister and technologically-enabled legislative bodies. Votes are completely transparent...
Friday 10 July 2020 : #StopHateforProfit is an important first step, but we need to go much further.
Your Undivided Attention
Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology
Bonus — The Facebook Files with Tristan Harris, Frank Luntz, and Daniel Schmachtenberger
On September 13th, the Wall Street Journal released The Facebook Files, an ongoing investigation of the extent to which Facebook's problems...
The Power of Solutions Journalism
What is the goal of our digital information environment? Is it simply to inform us, or also to empower us to act? The Solutions Journalism...
Do You Want to Become a Vampire?
How do we decide whether to undergo a transformative experience when we don’t know how that experience will change us? This is the central...
You Will Never Breathe the Same Again
When author and journalist James Nestor began researching a piece on free diving, he was stunned. He found that free divers could hold their...
A Facebook Whistleblower
In September of 2020, on her last day at Facebook, data scientist Sophie Zhang posted a 7,900-word memo to the company's internal site. In...
[Unedited] A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved
We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more....
A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved
We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more....
Mr. Harris Zooms to Washington
Back in January 2020, Tristan Harris went to Washington, D.C. to testify before the U.S. Congress on the harms of social media. A few weeks...
Can Your Reality Turn on a Word?
Can hypnosis be a tool to help us see how our minds are being shaped and manipulated more than we realize? Guest Anthony Jacquin is a...
The Stubborn Optimist's Guide Revisited
[This episode originally aired May 21, 2020] Internationally-recognized global leader on climate change Christiana Figueres argues that the...
Mind the (Perception) Gap
What do you think the other side thinks? Guest Dan Vallone is the Director of More in Common U.S.A., an organization that’s been asking...
Coded Bias
The film Coded Bias follows MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini through her investigation of algorithmic discrimination, after she...
Come Together Right Now
How many technologists have traveled to Niger, or the Balkans, or Rwanda, to learn the lessons of peacebuilding? Technology and social media...
Disinformation Then and Now
Disinformation researchers have been fighting two battles over the last decade: one to combat and contain harmful information, and one to...
The Courage to Connect
It’s no revelation that Americans aren’t getting along. But it’s easier to diagnose the problem than come up with solutions. The...
A Renegade Solution to Extractive Economics
When Kate Raworth began studying economics, she was disappointed that the mainstream version of the discipline didn’t fully address many...
Two Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari is one of the rare historians who can give us a two-million-year perspective on today’s headlines. In this wide-ranging...
Won't You Be My Neighbor? A Civic Vision for the Internet
You’ve heard us talk before on this podcast about the pitfalls of trying to moderate a “global public square.” Our guest today, Eli...
Are the Kids Alright?
We are in the midst of a teen mental health crisis. Since 2011, the rate of U.S. hospitalizations for preteen girls who have self-harmed is...
Your Nation's Attention for the Price of a Used Car
Today’s extremists don’t need highly produced videos like ISIS. They don’t need deep pockets like Russia. With the right message, a...
The Social Dilemma
A new documentary called The Social Dilemma comes out on Netflix today, September 9, 2020. We hope that this film, full of interviews with...
Facebook Goes '2Africa'
This summer, Facebook unveiled “2Africa,” a subsea cable project that will encircle nearly the entire continent of Africa — much to...
When Media Was for You and Me
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In 1940, a group of 60 American intellectuals formed the Committee for National Morale. “They’ve largely been forgotten,” says Fred...
Digital Democracy Is Within Reach
Imagine a world where every country has a digital minister and technologically-enabled legislative bodies. Votes are completely transparent...
Beyond the Boycott
#StopHateforProfit is an important first step, but we need to go much further.
