This week’s podcast is about how the internet — not the state of the world — is what’s bumming you out. As someone who has worked in the attention economy, I have some insider tips for understanding why this is happening, and books to recommend if you want to go deeper.

Here are the books (and the song) mentioned in the episode (with affiliate links, of course):

A quick correction — in the episode, I mention the myth that carrots help you see in the dark. The British propaganda campaign was not as I mention, because they developed better bombsights, but because they developed radar and were using it to intercept Luftwaffe planes.

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