Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention And How to Think Deeply Again

These companies, the attention economy itself, and the consumerist society that gave birth to it, deploy vast resources to turn as many people as possible into passive consumers, to reduce us to our eyeballs and our wallets. Because the more control a company can get over those things, the better their stocks will perform.

First, consumerism turned... See more

In so many ways to live in 2024 is to be subject to a constant and all-out assault on our attention . It’s the ability to attend to anything — a book, another person, ourselves — that is being eroded. I’m increasingly convinced, then, that the next big vector for inequality is around this most fundamental of human capabilities. The elites are going... See more