Episodes

  • Connected - Explore the threads that bind us with Nick Ledger

    Connected - Explore the threads that bind us with Nick Ledger
    Apr 17 2026
    Join Nick Ledger on Connected as he explores why we're more linked than ever yet increasingly alone. Through behavioral economics and social psychology, he examines how digital connections drain our social capital and what we lose without face-to-face conversations.

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    1 min
  • Connected - Weak Ties, Strong Lies

    Connected - Weak Ties, Strong Lies
    Apr 17 2026
    Nick Ledger examines the loneliness paradox: why we feel disconnected despite hundreds of online friends. Using economic principles, he explores how social media inflates weak ties while strong connections remain scarce, creating a "consumer surplus deficit" where volume replaces value, leaving us emotionally undernourished.

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    24 mins
  • Connected - The Phubbing Economy

    Connected - The Phubbing Economy
    Apr 17 2026
    Nick Ledger examines "phubbing" — ignoring people for your phone — as an economic crisis in human attention. Using research on attention inflation and relational wealth gaps, he reveals how phone-checking devalues presence and creates a growing divide between those managing attention well and those losing connection.

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    20 mins