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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Sometimes we don’t quite process that billions of people on the planet get unlimited entertainment, voice and video calling, maps, restaurant reviews, weather, news, an encyclopedia, mail, messaging, and more for *free* just because 1-2% of us click an ad every now and then.

Aaron Levie twitter.com

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How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook

Kaitlyn Tiffany vox.com

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World After Capital

Albert Wenger • 2 highlights

worldaftercapital.org

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The Internet is Destroying Your Attention: How to Survive the Attention Economy

Eric Brown

highexistence.com

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How to Map Nothing

Shannon Mattern placesjournal.org

Keely Adler

what is Social Media doing to us?

Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.

Jerod Morris and • 239 cards

a16z Podcast: The Truth about 1000 True Fans + Pricing Our Attention | Andreessen Horowitz

a16z.com

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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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