(This is my (tentative) startups motivating question.)
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We have the “attention hijacking” market sewn up in mostly dark patterns. How do you define “attention management.”
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Filters, mostly. It's shockingly hard (by design, I assume) to build tools that act as intermediaries between you and the various platforms that act as attention (re-)allocators.
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First blush, there is less money to be made in attention management than in attention kidnapping.
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I think that's a huge factor. And, related to it: platform capitalism. I've now started exploring four or five ideas only to realize, "oh, I can't do this, the exposed APIs seem almost perfectly designed to make my solution as fragile as possible."
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Have you listened to the lasted
@EconTalker podcast? With Shoshana Zuboff of Harvard University about surveillance capitalism, if you haven’t you might like it. It’s pretty cool -
I haven't yet but I will, thanks!
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Retraining your attention span = behavioral modification which takes time, dedication and impulse contr—— SHINY SQUIRREL!
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But seriously as someone who sells people training that helps with adjacent aspects of work and productivity, it’s a a hard sell. We’ve confused innovation with convenience
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It’s less the “Attention Economy” and more “Global Attention Fracking Operations”
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Yes. We're the resources, not the agents.
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