Mental Penguins: The Attention Economy and the Collapse of Deep Reading

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

This episode explores Mental Penguins by Ivelin Sardamov as a systems-level analysis of the interaction between technological systems, neurobiology, and education.

The discussion examines:

• incentive structures

• institutional persistence

• feedback loops

• hidden system dynamics

• structural outcomes

• how digital environments shape attention and learning

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