Finished reading: Attensity! by The Friends of Attention
The five biggest companies in the world, including Apple, are in the business of human fracking. They are fracking our collective attention and polluting our inner environments! They’re driven by greed. Their goal is making money. And my “time on device” is the only thing about me that is real to them, because that’s the part of my being that can be recorded, quantified and eventually sold.
This book helped me see how It benefits them if my habits of attention calcify around their devices. When I saw that and felt it clearly, all of a sudden I had a very actionable desire to stop paying so much attention to the screens.
It’s not so often that reading a book has a concrete effect on my life, but this one had me switching off my digital tools and turning my attention back to other ways of being, and it feels so good. Thank you for the inspiration, Friends of Attention!
