Jul 24, 2026
Is your attention being trained the same way an algorithm is trained?
In this micro, Carl Hayden Smith joins me to unpack what he calls the attention war: how algorithms and short-form media shape the brain toward ADHD-like patterns, whether you have ADHD or not. We also talk about what surfaces in the mind after a few...
Jul 7, 2026
Leonardo Mercado, known as The Peyote Lorax, joins me for Episode 209 to talk about the ecological and legal crisis threatening peyote, the sacred cactus at the center of Native American Church ceremonies.
We get into peyote's collapse in its only natural range, the contradictions inside the federal exemption that...