The Monkey and the Machine

04/08/2026, Dan Zigmond, dharma talk at City Center. Dan Zigmond explores how the "monkey mind" the Buddha diagnosed 2,500 years ago is exactly what today's algorithms are engineered to exploit, drawing on nearly thirty years of building attention-capturing technology at Google, Facebook, Apple, and Headspace, alongside four decades of Zen practice.

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The Monkey and the Machine is an episode from San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks by San Francisco Zen Center.

This episode is 00:42:38 long.

This episode was published on Apr 9, 2026.

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