Ep. 988: Charles Chaffin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

July 12, 2021

My guest today is Charles R. Chaffin. He writes and speaks on a variety of topics related to cognition, attention, and human behavior. His research focuses on multitasking and its relationship to human performance in a variety settings.

The topic is Numb: How the Information Age Dulls Our Senses and How We Can Get them Back.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Impact of the Information
• Facebook Platform
• Platform and Publisher
• The Attention Economy
• Maximizers vs Satisficers
• The Effects of Pornography
• Getting Likes on Social Media
• Attention and Distraction

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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