This week, our inaugural expert guest Dr. Charles R. Chaffin stops by to talk about his new book, Numb: How the Information Age Dulls Our Senses and How We Can Get Them Back.

Dr. Chaffin joins Joey to discuss the attention economy, compassion fatigue vs. empathy fatigue, finding empowerment to combat helplessness, the problem when tools become destinations, designing for addiction, Section 230, and authenticity. They don’t talk about Dr. Chaffin's microwave.

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• Corrections Department: The actual New York Times photo series on Mongolia's modernization referenced by Joey last week.
  
• Dr. Charles R. Chaffin's Numb: How the Information Age Dulls Our Senses and How We Can Get Them Back, out now!
  
• Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
  
• Dunbar's number
  
• A Critical Nonsense favorite: Cam Newport's A World Without Email
  
• The Numb Podcast
  
• And more of all things Dr. Chaffin at charleschaffin.com