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diff --git a/content/entry/book-stolen-focus-why-you-cant-pay-attention-and-how-to-think-deeply-again.md b/content/entry/book-stolen-focus-why-you-cant-pay-attention-and-how-to-think-deeply-again.md index 969da76..847a91d 100644 --- a/content/entry/book-stolen-focus-why-you-cant-pay-attention-and-how-to-think-deeply-again.md +++ b/content/entry/book-stolen-focus-why-you-cant-pay-attention-and-how-to-think-deeply-again.md @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ What I wanna do in this entry is share some key points in the book that stood ou Now first off, I agree with the initial premise that there is an attention crisis. Like Hari, I have personal experiences of the attention of the people I care about being so degraded to the point that it's impossible to have meaningful interactions with them anymore. Every attempt at a shared activity is punctuated by incessant smartphone checking and context switching. ## Social Media And Smartphones -Out in society, at least half the people in any given public area are on their phones. Many of them don't even see it as a problem that they constantly interrupt their day to enter [digital Skinner boxes](/glossary/) (social networks) and sometimes to play mobile games. People check their phone while they're going out to eat, while out on dates, while driving, and while having sex. I think the only reason people don't notice how big of a problem phones have become is because they're too distracted to notice. +Out in society, at least half the people in any given public area are on their phones. Many of them don't even see it as a problem that they constantly interrupt their day to enter [digital Skinner boxes](/glossary/#digital-skinner-box) (social networks) and sometimes to play mobile games. People check their phone while they're going out to eat, while out on dates, while driving, and while having sex. I think the only reason people don't notice how big of a problem phones have become is because they're too distracted to notice. -As is pointed out in Stolen Focus, the [in-cells](/glossary/)' addiction is not a personal failing. It's the inevitable consequence of unchecked capitalism combined with algorithms that only improve at capturing people's attention for longer and longer periods of time. Most of the information about social media wasn't anything I didn't already know. It was just nice to hear someone else validate my observation that everyone is being driven crazy by it. +As is pointed out in Stolen Focus, the [in-cells](/glossary/#in-cell)' addiction is not a personal failing. It's the inevitable consequence of unchecked capitalism combined with algorithms that only improve at capturing people's attention for longer and longer periods of time. Most of the information about social media wasn't anything I didn't already know. It was just nice to hear someone else validate my observation that everyone is being driven crazy by it. ## There's More to The Story Before reading Hari's book, I thought 'all' we had to do was get rid of social media and/or social media, then attention would come back. But as he lays out in his books, the real story is much more complicated and interesting than that. |