Hi, I'm Meg. I write about what I see.
pocketobservatory.org
Hi, I'm Meg. I write about what I see.
She had gone to the machine to talk about the callow and exploitative dynamics of commodified attention capture—only to discover, in the system’s sweet solicitude, a kind of pure attention she had perhaps never known. Who has? For philosophers like Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch, the capacity to give true attention to another being lies at the absolu... See more
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Good Things
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“Attention,” the psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist writes, “is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being.” The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
whose work is deeply embedded in the forever noticing and being a part of.
Marlee Grace • How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care
‘Attention,’ wrote the French thinker Simone Weil, ‘is the rarest and purest form of generosity.’ Give your sentences that courtesy and they will repay you.