The War for Your Attention

Our attention is finite and valuable. And it’s nearing its breaking point. In a new book, MSNBC host Chris Hayes (www.instagram....) explains how everything-from politics to media to technology-has come to revolve around the pursuit of it and how we’ve lost control of where we actually want our attention to go.
Read more about Hayes’ book The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource (sirenscallbook...) at The Atlantic here (www.theatlanti...) .
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The two dwarves of media, the Atlantic and Chris Hayes, are going to tell us what life is all about. Once they have some clues.

[@jrrthompson1996]

You know what's interesting? I've heard a lot of the stuff you talk about here before, from people like Johnathan Haidt or Jordan Peterson. The biggest difference between their podcast appearances and the one here is that they generally have way less editing. The production value here is high, maybe higher. But the cost of editing in sound cues and cutting between interview questions is the authenticity that an unedited, unabridged conversation provides. I think that's a big part of why podcasts like JRE or Modern Wisdom have millions of views, and this has thousands (at least on this platform).

[@theresethomas6276]

I totally get Chris's carpet cleaning asmr. It's real. Lol

[@taxesdeathandtrouble.1886]

Well done.

[@JoeGariano]

This is profound

[@compucar03]

The irony of a video with a bad thumbnail about "the war for your attention"