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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Attention Economy
what is Social Media doing to us?
Articles about social media platforms and their effects on society.
Jerod Morris and • 239 cards
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
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
I guess I meditate because attention is my art form. I’d even wager that much of what we call art — paintings, novels, poetry — are secondary, byproducts of rarefied attention. Attention, then is the primary art form.
Why I Meditate
the most convincing thing I've read on why to meditate
sari and
It is the business model of the internet, driven by ad revenue, that pushes companies to design their digital tools for compulsive engagement. This is, I think, true enough. The business model has certainly exacerbated the problem. But I’m far less sanguine than Hari appears to be about whether changing the business model will adequately address... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Attending to the World
Feels inevitable that music will be huge in web3 as it has the biggest gap between consumer passion & monetization of any category
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