attention is sacred

exploring the sacred nature of "attention"

sari and

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”

― Jeff Hammerbacher

alex

In my zombie era

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alex

You’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it. You have short attention span on an existential scale. You’re gliding past thousands of small worlds in minutes, laughing at one post, feeling dread at the next, tempted to buy something right after.... See more

Sherry Ning • You’re bored because you don’t love anything

sari

Attention is our Vitality. Our quality of life is equal to quality of our attention.

Prashant Patel

aalex

Intentionality and ritual

when you create a social reality with no connection to a deeper divine essence, and not alignment to a value greater than itself, you get lost in a maze where essential human values and relationships are mimicked endlessly and blindly in a chaos of hollow repetition. Then, as now, the only way out is to connect to the sacred; to an experience that... See more

Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It

sari

15/ That whole experience taught me something unforgettable - attention is an ACTION. It changes things. When you give attentive curiosity to the world, people notice Sometimes they respond to the implied invitation. Are there... See more

Matt Jugo x.com

Stuart Evans

800 page novels, 3.5 hour blockbuster movies, 4+ hour podcasts… Not to mention homesteading social media accounts with millions (and millions) of followers, slow food journaling version 2.4 promoting sourdough bread-making, old-school pickling and marmalade making — what’s going on?

Are we experiencing a new and evolved slow revolution? Is this the... See more

andrea

sari