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Reclaiming Attention
Steph • 3 cards
Information abundance creates attention scarcity! By 1997 (!) Michael Goldhaber was pushed this further with The Attention Economy and the Net arguing that attention was becoming the new currency of the digital age.
kyla scanlon • Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely
the state of the attention economy
alexi gunner • 6 cards
Camarilla advertises itself as the smallest social network in the world and limits you to just fifteen friends.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Ponder this: “If it’s true that attention is the only scarcity we have in this world of abundance, how come you and I are giving our attention away for free?” – Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly • a16z Podcast: The Truth about 1000 True Fans + Pricing Our Attention | Andreessen Horowitz
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
14. Reward Your Biggest Fans
Justin De Marco • The Musician’s Guide to Web3
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
mindfulness.substack.com
To receive no one’s attention would be a kind of death. There are, of course, disordered ways of seeking attention, but we need the attention of the other even if only to know who we are. This is why I recently wrote that “the problem of distraction can just as well be framed as a problem of loneliness.” Digital media environments hijack our desire... See more