{"id":5155,"date":"2026-03-28T09:15:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bncs.com.ng\/wpn\/podcasts\/the-attention-economy-with-dr-sarah-chen\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:15:28","slug":"the-attention-economy-with-dr-sarah-chen","status":"publish","type":"inkwell_podcast","link":"https:\/\/bncs.com.ng\/wpn\/podcasts\/the-attention-economy-with-dr-sarah-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attention Economy with Dr. Sarah Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sarah Chen, cognitive scientist and author of <em>The Distracted Mind<\/em>, joins us to discuss how the architecture of social platforms shapes our cognitive habits \u2014 and what we can actually do about it.<\/p>\n<p>We cover the neuroscience of scrolling, why push notifications are engineered to be irresistible, what the research shows about multi-tasking, and practical strategies for reclaiming genuine attention in a world optimised to fragment it.<\/p>\n<h2>Show Notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Chen&#8217;s research on smartphone interruption and IQ reduction<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;attention residue&#8221; concept and why task-switching is so costly<\/li>\n<li>Recommended reading: <em>Stolen Focus<\/em> by Johann Hari<\/li>\n<li>The single most effective intervention for reclaiming attention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation about attention, distraction, and the architecture of modern media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"audio_file":0,"audio_url":"https:\/\/www.soundhelix.com\/examples\/mp3\/SoundHelix-Song-1.mp3","episode_number":1,"season_number":1,"podcast_duration":"52:14","podcast_explicit":"no","spotify_url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/","apple_url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/","footnotes":""},"inkwell_media_category":[121],"inkwell_media_tag":[],"inkwell_show":[46],"class_list":["post-5155","inkwell_podcast","type-inkwell_podcast","status-publish","hentry","inkwell_media_category-technology","inkwell_show-the-inkwell-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bncs.com.ng\/wpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inkwell_podcast\/5155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bncs.com.ng\/wpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inkwell_podcast"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bncs.com.ng\/wpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/inkwell_podcast"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bncs.com.ng\/wpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bncs.com.ng\/wpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bncs.com.ng\/wpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inkwell_podcast\/5155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bncs.com.ng\/wpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inkwell_media_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bncs.com.ng\/wpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inkwell_media_category?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"inkwell_media_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bncs.com.ng\/wpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inkwell_media_tag?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"inkwell_show","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bncs.com.ng\/wpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inkwell_show?post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}