Opinion | the Great Delusion Behind Twitter - The New York Times

Raising awareness and pushing back or calling others out might be righteous at times, but it also means generating engagement for yourself or your cause and the thing you dislike. There’s a constant risk/reward calculus we’re asked to make before posting, and the problem is that the deck is stacked against us. We take the prompt, we play the role, ... See more

The Currency of Attention in an Age of Infinite Access

In the shadowed agora of the digital age, a silent siege rages—a worldwide assault on the fragile currency of human attention. This is no mere distraction but a calculated plunder, where algorithms, honed by artificial intelligence, transmute fleeting glances into chains of escapism. AI, once a ... See more

What if we spent less time shouting into the void and being washed over with shouting in return-and more time talking in rooms to those for whom our words are intended? If we have only so much attention to give, and only so much time on this earth, we might want to think about reinfusing our attention and our communication with the intention that b... See more

Getting people’s attention has never been easy, but social media made it a nightmare. Someone reading a book 20 years ago had few other distractions in front of them. Today your phone offers an Olympic competition for your dopamine.

The solution for many writers has been a combination of clickbait, pandering, and fear-mongering. The loudest voi

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