"If you’re using a free online service, the adage goes, you are the
product. It’s an arresting line, but one that deserves putting more
precisely: it’s not you, but your behavioural data and the quantifiable
facts of your engagement that are constantly blended for sale, with the
aggregate of every single interaction (yours included) becoming a
mechanism for ever-more-finely tuning the business of attracting and
retaining users."
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they
do.
- Andrew Carnegie -
The Attention Economy
For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are
spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in our
understanding of what attention means. Attending is closely connected to
anticipation. Soldiers snap to attention to signify readiness and respect.
Teachers shout 'Pay attention!' at slumped students whose thoughts have
meandered, calling them back to the place they're in. Time, presence and
physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately
unprovable: that we are understood. { read more }
Be The Change
This week notice the difference between what catches and imprisons your
attention and what you choose to attend intentionally.
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