Intention Catalog
Mapping the shift from the attention to the intention economy.
Shuya Gong and
Intention Catalog
We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and ke... See more
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“I’m looking for a practice and a journey, not a quick hit.” - Seth Godin
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?
Efforts to make information conform to archaic notions of scarcity, ownership, and finite physical quantity--concepts that grew out of the agricultural and industrial age--merely lock us into old mental boxes of constraint and exploitation.
Dee Hock • One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organizati…
We have shifted from an economy based on scarcity to one based on abundance. The control of products or distribution will no longer guarantee a premium and a profit.
Jeff Jarvis • WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
- 00:00 Intent is a credible commitment to a preference function over a specific system, users can express their intentions and utilize the Searcher Network to bridge the gap between what they want to achieve and the execution on the blockchain, with the goal of transitioning from value extraction to intent satisfaction, but be cautious as your inten
Optimizing MEV Landscape: Expressing User Intentions
Occupying the “third space” withing the attention economy is important not just because, as I’ve argued, individual attention forms the basis for collective attention and thus for meaningful refusal of all kinds. It is also important because in a time of shrinking margins, when not only students but everyone else has “put the pedal to the metal,” and cannot afford other kinds of refusal, attention may be the last resource we have left to withdraw. In a cycle where both financially driven platforms and overall precarity close down the space of attention—the very attention need to resist this onslaught, which them pushes further—it may be only in the space of our own minds that some of us can begin to pull apart the links.
Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing
The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the sorting of the seed from the dirt. One of the most important discriminations we can make in this matter is the difference between things that beckon to us and things that call from our souls.
Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the cho... See more
Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the cho... See more