Attention Required! | Cloudflare
So when you pay attention to something you don’t especially value, it’s not an exaggeration to say that you’re paying with your life.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Attention is the only thing we truly possess. Whatever we pay attention to is a kind of food. By paying attention to something, we accept its imprint and it becomes part of ourselves. To offer something for another person’s attention is not a trivial act. ~ Charles Eisenstein
Attention is a scarce commodity. Bezos told Higgins that attention was “the scarce commodity of the late 20th century.” It’s still the scarce commodity today, so his advice stands: “One of the ways that you can do that [capture attention] and it’s the way that we did it is by doing something new and innovative for the first time that actually has r... See more
Packy McCormick • Crypto Bezos
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
— Simone Weil
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“Your life is purchased by where you spend your attention.”