Ep. 1144: Gloria Mark Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
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The Role of Technology in Distraction
I think the most important part of your work to me is the big picture awareness. Many of these topics tie together, it's hard to describe it exactly. I write about how the very design of the internet itself, it's designed for distraction because of the node at link structure and semantic network. People want to accumulate social capital. When people do wrote kinds of activity on the internet like playing silly games, maybe they're not so silly by playing simple games, mindless games,. It makes people happy. We can get simple rewards from playing games. Dopamine hit. You watch TikTok, you're going to get rewarded by something that's hilarious. It keeps us paying attention to these
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