Welcome to Trained, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic fitness.

I'm Ryan Flaherty, the senior director of Performance at Nike.

On every episode I call up the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset,

movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.

All the ways to train your body and mind.

Today, I'm chatting with a scholar who's opened a window into the big business motives

and methods that shape today's Internet and how they affect our search for understanding.

There are some dimensions of knowledge and experience that don't come through a result in an

advertising platform.

That's just not a way to become educated and to participate in your community, in your

society, in to build expertise and knowledge.

Think about what it's like to live now where everyone thinks that everything can be known

and it can be known quickly.

We don't take the time to nuance and think through whether the thing that we're finding

is even accurate or true.

That's Dr. Sophia Noble, an associate professor of information studies at UCLA and the author

of algorithms of oppression on how our digital landscape has changed the ways we learn

and how we separate the truth from advertising.

So today, we're not talking about macros, muscle mass, recovery or mindfulness.

Instead, we're looking at our primary source of information for all of these topics.

Digging deep on algorithmic bias, our disappearing attention spans, and ways we can get back to

connecting with each other in real life.

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