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Podcast: Stay in the Fray Podcast
Episode: The Attention Economy Collapse: Humanity vs. Goldfish 🧠📱
Description: Congrats, humanity — we’ve officially lost a cognitive race to a goldfish.In this brutally honest episode, Ryan breaks down how our attention span tanked from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8.25 seconds in 2025 — and how tech giants like Meta, ByteDance, and Google are cashing in by renting out your brain.He dives into the science of dopamine addiction, the rise of short-form chaos, and why our obsession with instant gratification is shaping everything from relationships to politics. It’s part comedy, part cautionary tale, and entirely Fray.🔥 You’ll hear about:The 12 → 8-second fall of human f...