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Rewild your attention” — that’s a wonderful way of putting it! (Or as CJ Eller titled his blog post, from which I got my title here: “Rewilding Your Attention”.)
Instead of crowding your attention with what’s already going viral on the intertubes, focus on the weird stuff. Hunt down the idiosyncratic posts and videos that people are publishing, oftentimes to tiny and niche audiences. It’s decidedly unviral culture — but it’s more likely to plant in your mind the seed of a rare, new idea.
“Rewilding Your Attention”. To Find Truly Interesting Ideas, Step… | by Clive Thompson | Aug, 2021 | Medium
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The point is to impose a pattern on the way a manager copes with problems. To make something regular that was once irregular is a fundamental production principle, and that's how you should try to handle [...] interruptions [...]
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
As long as people think that government (as an ideal and an imperfect reality) is the enemy, we are doomed. Global warming and other problems are too complex to be solved without a collective action, rooted in a desire to make our lives better in ways that are not contingent on market efficiency or personal enrichment. Can a society be said to suffer from dementia? Watching my father succumb, I'm more convinced than ever that he is far from alone.
Notes From Pennsylvania
Matthew Gallaway
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