attention is sacred
exploring the sacred nature of "attention"
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attention is sacred
Jeff Bezos on retraining our attention spans
At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people
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In the Renaissance, a Florentine merchant could sponsor an artwork that would matter for centuries. In the early days of the American republic, a pamphlet could catalyze revolution. Today, even the most earnest Substack post risks being skimmed between an AI-generated video essay and a TikTok about luxury... See more
In the Renaissance, a Florentine merchant could sponsor an artwork that would matter for centuries. In the early days of the American republic, a pamphlet could catalyze revolution. Today, even the most earnest Substack post risks being skimmed between an AI-generated video essay and a TikTok about luxury... See more
Joan Westenberg
“Listening is how I started. I didn't start when I was a piano player. I didn't start as a composer. I started as a listener.” RIP
Intentionality and ritual
Intentionality
“Intentionality…is about the connection between what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.” - Malcom Ocean
Stuart Evans and • 27 cards
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil
― Simone Weil
Carissa Potter • How to feel alive again.
Being with somebody for an hour is much easier than paying attention to somebody for an hour. The former requires only physical (or virtual) proximity, and we do it every day. The latter happens only rarely. It requires us to donate all our emotional, spiritual, and intellectual energy to being with another person. I can recall only a few occasions... See more
Michael Austin • The Sacrament of Attention
"The information you consume each day is the soil from which your future thoughts are grown."