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Economist Herbert Simon, whose 1971 essay on the attention economy is one of the single most insightful meditations on attention ever published, observed long before the age of constant smartphone push notifications that a “wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes.
Chris Hayes • The Sirens' Call
“In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste.”Anu Atluru, Taste is Eating Silicon Valley
Emil Kowalski • Developing Taste
By way of contrast, the ideal of limitlessness consumption serves the modern economy quite well, but it does not serve the person well at all. [2] This ideal imparts to us all a spirit of scarcity that darkens our experience: not enough time, not enough attention, not enough capacity to care. But upon what does this spirit feed? It feeds, in part,
... See moreL. M. Sacasas • The Art of Living
The consequence of our content-addicted culture is non-stop diversion from having to come to grips with the big questions of reality, of life. The American social scientist Herbert Simon wrote: “The wealth of information means a dearth of something else—a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvi... See more
Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence
You can’t just collect information. To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you also need a purpose. It can be achieving mastery of a domain, collecting raw material for a project, curating something for someone as an act of generosity, or collecting inspiration for an essay you’ve been wanting to write.