Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
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Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
I left social media because of my inability to control my experience. Recently, I tried to dip my toes back in the pond again, this time on a decentralized network. Even there, I found myself yanked around like a puppet. While using social media, I didn’t even notice the emotional turmoil, but returning to it felt like stepping back into the boilin... See more
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
Jimmy Ceroneii
This situation, where more data is the goal, means there is great collection software and terrible decision making software. We are told to star, favorite, and bookmark everything. Yet, like real life hoarders, we cannot say what exactly we collected or why. Nor can we find any of it. How many times have you spent an hour trying to find that one Ti... See more
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
But when it comes to my mind, I want a higher standard for what goes in. I want to think deeply about what I consume. I do not want to outsource my decisions to a random algorithm.
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
I grew to love my system so much that I strained it. After a few years of reading and running down rabbit holes, I found myself with 15,000 articles, 500 books to read, and more YouTube videos than I could count. I was back at the start. It was then I realized the power of social media. For all its flaws, it is a powerful filter and decision making
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Jimmy created his own feed with rss and newsletters.
“It felt like a breath of fresh air. I could control what came into my feed with ease and I could choose who to trust. The crazed fog of social media was replaced by a calm place to think.” – yeah not so much right?
This is how I felt late in 2024 when I would get busy and then come back to 100 things I still had to read or do
There is no “Marie Kondo” for your Instagram.
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
Marie Kondo for your mind as a service
This situation, where more data is the goal, means there is great collection software and terrible decision making software. We are told to star, favorite, and bookmark everything. Yet, like real life hoarders, we cannot say what exactly we collected or why. Nor can we find any of it.
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
Is this the manifesto for maas?
We live in a world where we are encouraged to collect everything online. Why? To some degree, for our convenience. But the real driving force is companies can get to know us better, to better sell us more toys.
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
Why should we care about digital hoarding? Storage is cheap, why not keep it all? To be clear, storage is cheap - cheaper than ever before. The clutter on our devices is (mostly) not a problem. The real problem is who is pushing all this clutter.
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
I’m the proud owner of a terrifying cache of 20,000 articles, almost a thousand Goodreads books, and hundreds of writing drafts.
My digital clutter is horrific but hidden. The Google Drives of the world tuck away my digital rot in tidy little boxes. Scoff all you want, I know you've got a hoard of TikToks or 50,000 photos in your own phone. We are d
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