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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Tokens in the attention economy

Cobie cobie.substack.com

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Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?

Ted Gioia tedgioia.substack.com

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Are Attention Spans Actually Shrinking? (Pt 1)

open.substack.com

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Once I started to think in terms of TTI, it upended the entire concept of attention for me and forced me to acknowledge that maybe people’s attention spans weren’t getting shorter after all.

Framed through the lens of TTI, audiences don’t suffer from a dilemma of shortened attention spans, but rather a dilemma of increased choice (see the abundance crisis above).

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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REDEF ORIGINAL: The Attention Economy Crisis: The Future of Content, Commerce and Culture

Joe Marchese redef.com

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The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex

Sean Blanda 99u.adobe.com

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

Ezra Klein nytimes.com

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Vimeo / Something went wrong

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People in my profession say all the time that they can't do their jobs without Twitter, and it drives me so crazy because I think most of them are worse at their jobs because of Twitter. The reason is that Twitter, as do other forms of social media, gets you to lose control of what you care about. You lose that intentionality with your own... See more

Clay Skipper • Ezra Klein’s Formula for a Good Day Involves These Four Things

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