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Take Back Your Attention

Brass Tack Thinking - Take Back Your Attention

The amount of attention we have to give is finite. The receipt of attention is earned, both initially to capture it, and continually to keep it. No one is entitled to it, ever. The online experience you immerse yourself in is, to a large degree, under your control. You can Read more »

Calling for the Death of Consumption Guilt

How often do you lament the fact that you can’t get through all of the stuff in your reader? I know I’ve done it. Do you feel guilty when you unsubscribe something or unfriend someone in your network? Why? Consumption of content is not a democracy. Giving of attention is Read more »

The Reaction Compulsion

One side effect of the information firehose that is the web is that we consume content at lighting speed. We digest very little of it. Akin to wolfing down a bag of donuts because it’s your diet cheat day without tasting even one of them, we’ve gone into hyperdrive with Read more »

Finding Your Greener Grass

Sometimes, you just outgrow things. When you first learned to read, Dr. Seuss was awesome. Simple, rhyme-y, easy to grasp and remember. When you were little, you likely read those books over and over and never got tired of them. Until you did. Until you needed something more to challenge Read more »