Attack Ads! The Podcast

We humans bear complex mental mechanisms, which are often general enough for experiments to tease out some rules that govern our behavior. Knowing how these rules can manipulate us helps us realize the title of this Episode 198: We Are Not So Smart.   Find the Shot Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/05/episode-198-we-are-not-so-smart.html

Workplaces are social dynamos. Quite often—and often by design—how we are paid and scheduled interferes in what people really want from their work. This is the long-existing division I discuss in today's Episode 197: The Rabbits and the Work-Hogs. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/04/episode-197-rabbits-and-work-hogs.html

History has shown again and again that an incomplete or just mistaken understanding of how the world really works leads to most of the problems we suffer. To change our world, we must first change our minds; thus Episode 196: The REALLY Big Necessity. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/04/episode-196-really-big-necessity.html

After seeing some of the best magazines I've ever read go quite extinct, some have wondered if the lack of advertising killed them. I would ask, rather, if magazines can afford to advertise at all. Still, in this Episode 195: I Miss Magazines. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/03/episode-195-i-miss-magazines.html

Lately, it seems, how long we owners of tech can use our things has been shrinking, as ever-more monopolistic powers extend toward a product totalitarianism that favors newness over usefulness. This I explore Episode 194: Something Old, Something New. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/03/episode-194-something-old-something-new.html

Have you ever thought how weird it is that experts in labor—issuing pronouncements about how long shifts should be—never work those job shifts themselves? It's another argument supporting the title group in this Episode 193: KSD Lazy, Do Nothing Idlers.   Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/02/episode-193-ksd-lazy-do-nothing-idlers.html

Everyone seems aware of the appalling working conditions afflicting the poor in the 18th century; fewer seem aware, though, of what rationale drove employers to such torture. I dip into a book from that period in this Episode 192: The Right To Be Lazy. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/02/episode-192-right-to-be-lazy.html

Today’s society values industry and work, specifically hard and grueling work. This has happened before. We should look to the 1877, where good advice was given in an essay, the title of which I've stolen for this Episode 191: An Apology For Idlers. Find the Show Notes At: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/01/episode-191-apology-for-idlers.html

With all the bad news in which we wallow, it's natural to feel the need to do something. Sadly, that is just what the people who got that news to you would like you to do. Better instead to follow the advice of today's Episode 190: How To Do Nothing. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/01/episode-190-how-to-do-nothing.html

Every now and again, I discover a quote I deem relevant enough to share. Less often, I’m moved enough to share most of the original source. In this Bonus Episode, I read from one of those rare finds: FDR's 1938 Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2021/12/bonus-episode-fdrs-1938-message-to.html