attention is sacred
exploring the sacred nature of "attention"
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attention is sacred
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”
― Jeff Hammerbacher
Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Narrating and listening foster each other. The narrative community is a community of careful listeners. A particular kind of attention is inherent to careful listening. People who listen carefully are oblivious to themselves; they immerse themselves in what they hear: "The more self-forgetful the listener is, the more deeply what he listens to is i
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Platforms like TikTok and Instagram are engines of distraction and cultural rot. They stand in front of the more difficult but more rewarding aspects of life: deep work, intimate connections with friends and loved ones, focused attention for hobbies with intrinsic rewards. By training users to crave constant novelty and the immediate approval of an... See more
Adam Singer • TikTok and Instagram are intellectual poison
"Irony is the song of a bird that has come to love its cage." - David Foster Wallace
When you’re reading a physical book, your attention is not competing for other things which is why they're so powerful. Books give you solemnity.
You forget the world exists, enjoy what the author has to say, and even feeling yourself wanting to know them as a friend.
John Buschtwitter.comCollecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills that demand time, patience, and a willingness to look beyond the surface.
To collect well is to resist algorithmic influence. A true collection reflects deeply personal values and a genuine desire to know... See more
To collect well is to resist algorithmic influence. A true collection reflects deeply personal values and a genuine desire to know... See more
Patricia Hurducaș • Archives: Anchors For Attention
What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more