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
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Contracting our attention into the moment is hard, but it increases its potency, just as the brevity of words increases the potency of an idea, creating deeper grooves in the mind. If brevity is the soul of wit, then presence is the soul of experience. We cannot be fully ourselves until we are fully in the moment—attention nowhere but here.
Isabel Hazan • distillation
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.👉
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
attention as an outgrowth of interest and, crucially, of choice.
Megan Garber • The Great Fracturing of American Attention
