Taking Back Control: Finding Focus and Choice on the Internet in 2023
Iāve had enough. Over the last year, I have finally decided that all the attention manipulation, the never ending āsignalsā, and the 3500 interrupters that my phone and other devices create each day is too much to bear. I find I no longer casually or carefully read articles ā let alone books! My days have become filled with a blend or oscillations between some variant of ādoom scrollingā on pop-news sites and trying to do 100 things at once while 1000 other things beg me to give them my attention for just a moment....