We live in an attention economy. It's not a new idea. Yet, rather than paying for services and products that give us control over our attention, websites are free (gratis) at the expense of our attention. Something went terribly wrong.
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I conflate attention management and information retrieval often. Google puts the World's info at my finger tips -- incredible! ...but, an hour after a fleeting idea, I'm reading about bugs in Madagascar. Fast access is often at odds with the intentional allocation of attention.pic.twitter.com/WKy0BUBQLB
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(That photo was by
@BuzardKurt.@Am_anatiala's extremely reasonable anger over failure to credit wildlife photogs is one positive effect of my twitter feed.)2 replies 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
The gist of this all is that
@facebook,@twitter, etc successfully exploit a defect in our perception. "'If you're not paying for the product, you are the product,' is a deeply true cliché. But for some reason, we don't notice we're getting swindled.1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
And, I think that perceptual defect is related to how intoxicating and addictive instantaneous access to novelty is. Maybe we need some speed bumps?
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💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 💫 Retweeted François Chollet
Oh, I just remembered this tweet from @fchollet. I think it's part of what's been percolating in my mind that I'm trying (sloppily) to convey in this thread.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1045827136076972032 …
💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 💫 added,
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