Healthy attention feels controlled, replenishing, and non-monetizable

Evidence

Where in your life do you feel in control of the movement of your attention? What leaves you feeling better, not worse, after you give your mind, time, and senses to it? When do you notice an experience of your attention leaving you feeling curious, energized, replenished? When do you feel closer to the reality of the world and other people? And where does your attention move in ways that can’t be monetized by the human frackers? — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 418

Categorization

• DEFINE: Operationalizes healthy vs. fracked attention through felt experience rather than abstract criteria.
• XREF: connects to: Likes measure engagement, not goodwill, in the attention economy — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 375; Sale of attention depends on transitory attention while well-being needs sustained attention. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 439; The fix for attention problems is collective attentional freedom, not individual span (+12 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Likes measure engagement, not goodwill, in the attention economy — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 375; Sale of attention depends on transitory attention while well-being needs sustained attention. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 439; The fix for attention problems is collective attentional freedom, not individual span (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Attention has quality and volitional character invisible to the market #corroborates (0.92) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 345
• Public attention is a self-reproducing form of value convertible into fame #complicates (0.78) — Michael H. Goldhaber, The Attention Economy and the Net, 6
• Likes measure engagement, not goodwill, in the attention economy #complicates (0.75) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 375
• The fix for attention problems is collective attentional freedom, not individual span #complicates (0.75)
• The attention merchant model’s magic is delivering real value that seems free #complicates (0.75) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 892
• Attention operates as an addictive wealth of increasing returns #complicates (0.74) — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe, 347
• Attention from audiences provides genuine affective and psychological benefits #complicates (0.72) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 518
• Attention scarcity can be turned into an asset through redistributed attention #complicates (0.72) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 337