Shuya Gong
@ohmygong
Shuya Gong
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
The primary purpose of the internet had changed from supporting a knowledge economy to growing an attention economy.
Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human
As you surface from an hour inadvertently frittered away on Facebook, you’d be forgiven for assuming that the damage, in terms of wasted time, was limited to that single misspent hour. But you’d be wrong. Because the attention economy is designed to prioritize whatever’s most compelling—instead of whatever’s most true, or most useful—it... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
A “Grooving Area” is essential.
instagram.comIntention Catalog and Internet Hallways
Grooving areas.
an app where you can only have 150 followers & follow 150 people.
anti influencer instagram.
From @enggirlfriend: an app where you can only have 150 followers & follow 150 people. anti influencer instagram.
Dunbar’s Feed
Having 'potential' in your mind, feels better than failure in reality. This ego-cushion prevents millions from creating their life's work. Once you feel it- physically- that cushion becomes painful, like a tumor you have to remove. And you only get it out one way. By identifying not with goals, but with output. You should feel dead inside if you... See more
Insights from Byung-Chul Han:
The rise of narcissism, the emphasis on authenticity, and shallow technological experiences are eroding essential societal bonds
We need daily and lifelong rituals to help bring narrative structure into our lives
In the past,... See more
“an intent is a signed set of declarative constraints which allow a user to outsource transaction creation to a third party without relinquishing full control to the transacting party”
Stanley He • Account Abstraction and SUAVE: How far are we from an Intent-Centric Ethereum?
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a beautiful explanation as to why Van Gogh’s masterpiece has resonated for over a century.
“You know what I like about The Starry Night?
It’s not what Van Gogh saw that night, it’s what he felt.
[The painting] is not a representation of reality and anything that deviates from is reality that has filtered through... See more
“You know what I like about The Starry Night?
It’s not what Van Gogh saw that night, it’s what he felt.
[The painting] is not a representation of reality and anything that deviates from is reality that has filtered through... See more