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Signal
Hardcover
PhilosophyBusiness GeneralGeneral Psychology
Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9781067784218
Publisher: Signal Economy Press
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
You are not distracted because you are weak. You are not exhausted because you are busy. You are distracted and exhausted because the environment was engineered to occupy your attention while you were trying to live your life. The cost is not just lost time - it is the slow erosion of the mechanisms that let you recognize what actually matters.
Drawing on his clinical practice and a framework that synthesizes Shannon, Tinbergen, Dunbar, Taleb, and Carse, Dr Maamoun Abdul Fattah names what most people are experiencing without words. The fractured attention. The exhaustion that sleep does not fix. The relationships that drift while still technically functioning. The decisions that should have been clear and somehow weren't.
SIGNAL traces the failure across five scales - individual, relational, institutional, biological, and civilizational - and offers something rarer than another diagnosis. It offers an architecture. Not motivation. Not productivity hacks. A precise, lived, clinically grounded framework for protecting the signal in a world that profits from the noise.
Dr Maamoun Abdul Fattah is a Consultant Ophthalmologist and surgeon practicing across multiple countries. He operates on the eye - the biological interface where light becomes signal - and has spent his career making high-stakes decisions under conditions of uncertainty, noise, and consequence. SIGNAL is the map he built while still navigating the territory.
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