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Attention 🎯
After a decade of meditation there is one thing i can say for certain: Your Attention Is Sovereign.
Attention is a subject that I am deeply interested in, I have done a lot of writing and thinking about it.
Dealing With Procrastination | 2145
The horror as my depression lifted at the beginning of the UK lockdown. It wasn’t depression stopping me. It was something far worse. Me.
The Light Is a Headlight | 2140
If you think that you see any kind of light at the end of the tunnel at all, you are mistaken.
10 Years With a Straight Razor | 2131
Since I have been old enough to do so, I’ve hidden my face behind a beard. Shaving with a straight razor requires the sacrifice of attention.
The Kraken in the Social Seas | 2110
Taking your eye off social media even for a moment reveals a greater danger. Deep down in the dark lies the Kraken of the social sea.
Rage Blocked
I rage blocked Twitter on my phone + laptop last Saturday morning
Word Diet
My plan is for the next week to reduce the amount of words I consume via a screen radically.
Passive Quantified Systems
I think there could be a lot more done representing my phone use beyond lame bubbles falling down every-time I unlock my phone.
All Thoughts Fly
Moaning about spending/wasting too much time on my phone is the perennial topic for this blog.
Panning The Streams
I’ve spent the week thinking about/observing my behaviour in the feeds more closely
Beyond The Last Ad Break | 2039
Television News has no memory beyond the last ad break. Updates on what I’ve got going on, and how a healthier media diet might be a good idea right now
Sonic Geography | 2022
There are universes to be found inside of all sound.
Please for the love of Blarg, Start a Blog
Your Twitter thread is great! But it is also ephemeral, temporal and easily forgotten. Start a damn Blog
Start Select Reset Zine – Your Attention Is Sovereign
This first zine is a collection of transcripts on the attention economy, social media, and device use that have emerged as a recurring thread thought making permanently moved in the last 18 months.
The Internet Isn’t All One Thing | 1922
Half articulated thoughts on Waldenponding, literal content and UX verticality, the demands of the attention economy and why return to the Isles of blogging.
No news is … good news?
It’s 2018. People don’t actually read newspapers either. Instead they step on/in to social media every morning like a stinking cesspool.
Minister of My Own Labor
It’s been a strange week thats for sure but I’m not going to talk about that here. Narrative I’m now twelve days into my new social media diet. The essay “Avoid News, Towards a Healthy News Diet” by Rolf Dobelli has been a big influence on me since I read it back in 2012/13 ish. We…
