Explicit advance pacts about gathering intentions resist attentional extraction.

Evidence

But in all of these human ecologies, people “gather,” and when they gather (as Priya Parker has reminded us), it is worth taking the time to figure out, in advance, what they hope and desire and expect from actually being together—and then, within the radically new conditions of ubiquitous attentional bio-hacking, to figure out genuine, explicit guidelines and statements of commitment that can facilitate those intentions and expectations. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 356

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: the ‘gathering covenant’ as a concrete micro-practice ordinary groups can adopt against attention theft.