Attention Economy

exploring the inner workings and dynamics of companies building products engineered to hook us, addict us, and hijack our attention to sell more ad inventory

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The Ecology of Attention

Lia Purpura agnionline.bu.edu

Keely Adler

Social Media = Sharecropping? — Regina Anaejionu

Regina Anaejionu prolificpublisher.com

Talin Koutnouyan

Are We Really Addicted?

Evan Armstrong every.to

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Social Media Is Attention Alcohol

Derek Thompson theatlantic.com

Mark Fishman

Reframing the “Social Media” Problem As an Attention Crisis

medium.com

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Business model shapes outcomes. In a subscription based model, you build tools people use and pay for. In an ad-based model, you build engagement hacks. As Tristan Harris put it: “we've moved away from having a tools-based technology environment to an addiction and manipulation based... See more

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“Specificially, pursuit of novelty creates “luck”, and curiosity is the emotional manifestation of novelty. If we’re more open to what attracts our attention, we’ll get a lot luckier.”

Paul Millerd twitter.com

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I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message

Ezra Klein nytimes.com

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