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

Ezra Klein nytimes.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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The New Gated is Here - Get the App | Gated

gated.com

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Innovation In Media: Reinventing How Ideas and Culture Spread

Rex Woodbury digitalnative.substack.com

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Li Jin on The Passion Economy & Its Hidden Currency

nfx.simplecast.com

Sixian

I want to be realistic about how the mind works today, which is on multiple streams. And this situation isn’t going to change. We can set up full attention as an ideal, but our digital devices are producing a different way of attending.

Dirt • Dirt: Disordered Attention

Keely Adler

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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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