Category: Attention 🎯
After nearly two decades of meditation. I have come to my senses a little, and there is one thing I can say for certain: Your Attention Is Sovereign.
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Taste As Interface Behaviour
It’s an apparatus that observes you observing, then changes its own behaviour based on that observation, which in turn shapes the future view you see though the window.
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Daily Averages
I still have a web time tracker extension installed in my personal browser profile. Six years later, here are my daily averages across that whole period.
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Novel Cognition
The novel brought about a new kind of cognition; and why AI might be doing the same.
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The Firehose and the Feed
When I read the RAND paper and Paying Attention side by side, the physics of the incentive landscape were made quite a bit clearer to me.
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Lock In
Like pretty much every other Millennial, I’ve been hearing the phrase ‘Lock In’ everywhere lately.
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Just Like Stuff
I’ve had a hard rule for almost twenty years: I don’t argue with people about anything on the internet.
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Turning of Attention
September feels like a time for recommitment. A chance to pick things back up, or begin again with a little more focus.
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King of Mind | 2518
The glowing screen does not possess the king of mind. You merely have rehearsed the reflex of the infinite scroll.
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A Little More Distinct
What I’m gravitating towards is work that feels more distinct. People who are off doing their own thing, on blogs or standalone websites.
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Surface Without Substance | 2509
With its smooth, depthless glass, the smartphone is the ultimate surface. It denies the body its place in the interface.
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Sitting This One Out
This post began as a journal entry—and ended up a prose poem. It’s about choosing not to perform panic online.
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Hold On
Trump Coin has sort of got lost in the noise in UK media due to the Tiktok shut down. But its way more insane and way more significant news.
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Discipline Doesn’t Arrive On Its Own
I am really struggling to get 2025 started. I’ve been pulling the starter cord over and over, but nothing is turning.
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Retreat to Recalibrate
I’m considering another “word diet”.
