
Episode #13
Signal, Noise & the Battle for Your Attention | Kira Shishkin
We have access to more information than at any other time in history—but are we actually better informed? In this After Hours conversation, I sit down with Kira Shishkin, founder of Informed.now, to talk about the increasingly difficult job of separating signal from noise in a world of breaking-news alerts, social media, clickbait, misinformation, advertising, and endless demands on our attention. We explore information overload, the economics of attention, media mindfulness, sensationalism, and what happens when platforms designed to inform us are also competing to keep us clicking. Kira also shares why he created Informed.now, a simple approach to staying informed without spending your morning scrolling through headlines. I've been using it myself, and one of the things that intrigued me was how quickly I can get a sense of what's happening without disappearing down the news rabbit hole. But this conversation is bigger than any one app or news source. It's about something increasingly valuable: your attention. Who gets it? What deserves it? And how do we become genuinely informed without becoming completely overwhelmed? Grab your coffee and join us for a conversation about information, discernment, attention—and learning to recognize the signal hiding inside all that noise. Connect with Kira: Informed.now About After Hours: After Hours is where we set aside the polished talking points and have the conversations that happen when curious people sit down over coffee and follow an idea wherever it leads.






