Attention Economy

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.

“Specificially, pursuit of novelty creates “luck”, and curiosity is the emotional manifestation of novelty. If we’re more open to what attracts our attention, we’ll get a lot luckier.”

1/ Lemme do a 1-slide presentation since I'm feeling job sick. Title: How to Actually Manage Attention Without Smashing Your Phone and Retreating to a Log Cabin

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.

Can digital devices promote human-to-human interaction? Technology companies are increasingly using ambient computing to create more thoughtful products that demand less of our attention in a post-notification world.👉

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

I get the theory that free ad-supported networks have incentive problems. I don't agree, but I get it. However, I don't see why web3 replacing this with transparent & programatic payments controlled by a consensus of good and bad actors would necessarily have better incentives

One of the weirdest things about the Internet is that even though we’re just a click away from the greatest authors of all-time, from Plato to Tolstoy, we default to just scrolling Twitter

@cdixon: Web2 is built on advertising. Big companies like Facebook and Google make most of their money on advertising, and many web2 startups build their customer base using advertising.

Feels inevitable that music will be huge in web3 as it has the biggest gap between consumer passion & monetization of any category