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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How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star

Charlie Warzel newsletters.theatlantic.com

Keely Adler

Don’t Blame Media’s Business Model

Jacob Cohen Donnelly amediaoperator.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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Opinion | Chris Hayes: I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here is How I Mastered My Own. - The New York Times

Chris Hayes nytimes.com

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Being fine with periods of solitude, working alone, pushing things forward without others cheering you on...that's a superpower. The ability to run your own race, despite what the world is doing, initially looks behind - but puts you out front.

Dr. Julie Gurner twitter.com

Supritha S

To optimize for viral growth, today’s social platforms are designed to feature entertainers and sensationalized content in a one-to-many fashion to generate more ad impressions... this is inducing divisiveness and reducing human interaction to just tapping on a like button.

Dan Kurani • A Kinder Internet

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Team Human

Douglas Rushkoff • 6 highlights

Inhabiting the Negative Space (Sternberg Press / The Incidents)

Jenny Odell

amazon.com

Cover of Inhabiting the Negative Space (Sternberg Press / The Incidents)

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top highlight: the role of the artist and designer that’s most important to me right now is indeed one as an orchestrator of attention