Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Amid this constant surge of information, attention has become our most precious asset.
99U • Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (The 99U Book Series)
Every single action we take — calling our grandparents, cleaning up the kitchen or, today, scrolling through our phones — is a transaction. We are taking what precious little attention we have and diverting it toward something. This is a zero-sum proposition, he realized. When you pay attention to one thing, you ignore something else.
nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. - Herbert Simon, 1971
As I’ve said before, financial freedom isn’t about money, it’s about attention. The less you have to think about money, the more free you actually are.