Misled Learning

We didn't get dumber. We got fed.

Misled Learning argues that the biggest threat to how we think isn't ignorance—it's confidence. Drawing on Milgram's obedience experiments, Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment, and the mechanics of the algorithmic filter bubble, this book traces a direct line from indulgence-selling priests and cigarette-shilling ballplayers to the feed in your pocket right now—each one selling certainty to people who never thought to ask where it came from.

Sharp, unflinching, and built for a moment when nobody trusts the news but everybody trusts their feed—this is the book that names the thing everyone's feeling but nobody's been able to explain. We've all had the moment: watching someone we respect defend a claim they can't source, or catching ourselves doing the exact same thing a week later. Misled Learning doesn't let listeners off the hook, and it doesn't let the platforms off the hook either—it shows both at once, the engineered system and the very human hunger for certainty that lets it work. The result is a book that's less interested in telling listeners what to believe than in showing them how they came to believe it in the first place, and why that question matters more now than it ever has.