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
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.đ
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 Iâm far less sanguine than Hari appears to be about whether changing the business model will adequately address... See more
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The Internet is Destroying Your Attention: How to Survive the Attention Economy
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How we allocate our attention defines us even more than our purchases do. People have different amounts of money, so the things we buy donât reflect values in the same way for everyone. The same purchase might represent a tremendous sacrifice for one person and a mere afterthought to another. But we all have the same widowâs mite of attention to distribute among the many things competing for it: family, friends, education, health, careers, church, politics, great books, lousy books, clickbait headlines, and viral posts about ridiculous people doing ridiculous things for no particular reason. Our limited attention budget forces us to make choices, and those choices both reveal our values and create our characters.
Are Attention Spans Actually Shrinking? (Pt 1)
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Once I started to think in terms of TTI, it upended the entire concept of attention for me and forced me to acknowledge that maybe peopleâs attention spans werenât getting shorter after all.
Framed through the lens of TTI, audiences donât suffer from a dilemma of shortened attention spans, but rather a dilemma of increased choice (see the abundance crisis above).