Attention
“How to undo it now is the question, you know, how to replace acquisition with attention and possession with presence, you know, the way that most humans lived in most places for most of human history?”
- Richard Powers at NYPL
the art of feeding your mind: a framework for conscious consumption
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“All things are full of Time—they are Timeful. The natural world in particular is bursting with backstories—tragedies, comedies, sprawling million-year sagas, chronicles of forgotten empires.
Reconceiving everything, including ourselves, as entities sculpted by time is a perceptual shift that can be transformative on the personal and societal
... See moreThe first half of “doing nothing” is about disengaging from the attention economy; the other half is about reengaging with something else. That “something else” is nothing less than time and space, a possibility only once we meet each other there on the level of attention. Ultimately, against the placelessness of an optimized life spent online, I
... See moreJenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.
curiosity can be a double-edged sword. With so many ideas competing for your attention, it can be hard to decide which one to pursue. You might experience choice paralysis, unable to commit to a single project because you don’t want to miss out on the others. As a result, you may find yourself starting many projects but only finishing a few.
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nesslabs.com • The Curiosity Conflict: The Struggle to Shift From Exploration to Exploitation
