Intention Catalog
Mapping the shift from the attention to the intention economy.
Shuya Gong and
Intention Catalog
The primary purpose of the internet had changed from supporting a knowledge economy to growing an attention economy.
Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human
Why I don't like algorithmic/filter bubbles/for you feeds:
I refuse to be one thing. I’m two things, three things, a hundred things at once, and I’ll be a hundred different things tomorrow. I don’t want the convenience of being collapsed, defined, optimized for legibility. I want to be aerated, blobby, and porous. I want to be the sea around an ... See more
Shift From More to Less
Steven Lawson • inc.com
Perhaps the only solution to the omnipresence of work is an intentional shift in cognition, where we shift the mind away from the incessant desire to produce, and into one of periodic contentment. Instead of replying to one-off emails throughout the evening, try picking up the phone and chatting with a friend instead. Rather than trying to brainsto... See more
Lawrence Yeo • The Omnipresence of Work - More To That
To speak about attention as a resource is to grant and even encourage its commodification. If attention is scarce, then a competitive attention economy flows inevitably from it. In other words, to think of attention as a resource is already to invite the possibility that it may be extracted. Perhaps this seems like the natural way of thinking about... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Your Attention Is Not a Resource
For my purposes, the attention economy is as simple as the buying and selling of attention. There’s the micro, literal version of that, which is “engagement,” a measure of how much time someone spends in an app and how much they engage with it. But I think a broader definition of the attention economy is kind of like — as I personally experience i
... See moreJenny Odell • How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook
What would it be like to run your life at the speed of your own soul,
instead of always feeling like you need to speed up or slow down to match someone else?
