Attention Traps - by Varun - Public Experiments
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Can we find needles of signal in the Web's infinite haystack of noise?
Attention Traps Can we find needles of signal in the Web's infinite haystack of noise? Varun Shenoy Apr 04, 2023 15 4 Share An artistic rendering of the interior of the Library of Alexandria ( source ). The modern internet is a firehose of transient information. Twitter, Substack, Hacker News, Reddit, rinse-and-repeat. Right-click, open link in new tab. Your browser tabs continue to expand outward. The titles are no longer visible, compressed by an ever-growing work queue. Only a little glyph remains to indicate each tab, playfully teasing you with a “hey, I’m still here”. You want to keep up,
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