Jesse Burkunk
@jburkunk
Strategist in media and culture, a kind of chef, collector of adventurous music and good recipes. Plays music machines and cycles long distances for fun.
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“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
— David Foster Wallace
There is a long-standing, widespread belief that attention carries value. In English, attention is something that we “pay.” In Spanish, it is “lent.” The Swiss literary scholar Yves Citton, whose study of the digital age, “The Ecology of Attention,” argues against reducing attention to economic terms, suggested to me that it was traditionally... See more
Nathan Heller • The Battle for Attention | The New Yorker
What is attention?
We fear our highest possibilities (as well as our lowest ones). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under the most perfect conditions, under conditions of greatest courage. We enjoy and even thrill to the godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously... See more
The Cure for the Jonah Complex
Maslow
