Work your way to the end. I explain why TikTok users value the site by $5,600 per year and why the politics of attention explains Cambridge Analytica, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and cancel culture.
I read your writing and, honestly, it blew my mind.
It’s not that I don’t understand the attention economy from a theoretical angle - I do. The problem is I’ve never been able to extract it from my own head, compress it, and deliver it in a structured way. That’s the hard part.
You did that for me.
As someone who literally earns a living as a creator - inside the attention economy - this kind of systemization matters. Once you can break attention down into a framework, it stops being abstract and becomes a tool.
And in a world where attention is the currency, mastering it isn’t optional.
If you can’t beat the system, you don’t moralize it - you learn it, weaponize it, and monetize it.
Glad I found this and thank you for writing it. I'm discovering my own interest in attention as a resource. I hope to learn more about the potential consequences of the systems meant to farm or attention. Are any of these systems fair or ethical? How do they help or hurt?
I read your writing and, honestly, it blew my mind.
It’s not that I don’t understand the attention economy from a theoretical angle - I do. The problem is I’ve never been able to extract it from my own head, compress it, and deliver it in a structured way. That’s the hard part.
You did that for me.
As someone who literally earns a living as a creator - inside the attention economy - this kind of systemization matters. Once you can break attention down into a framework, it stops being abstract and becomes a tool.
And in a world where attention is the currency, mastering it isn’t optional.
If you can’t beat the system, you don’t moralize it - you learn it, weaponize it, and monetize it.
Glad I found this and thank you for writing it. I'm discovering my own interest in attention as a resource. I hope to learn more about the potential consequences of the systems meant to farm or attention. Are any of these systems fair or ethical? How do they help or hurt?