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The attentional commons – The Earthbound Report

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Matthew Crawford’s The Case for Working With Your Hands is one of my favourite books, a work of profound but practical philosophy. I’ve been wondering what Crawford would write next, an…

Matthew Crawford ‘s The Case for Working With Your Hands is one of my favourite books, a work of profound but practical philosophy. I’ve been wondering what Crawford would write next, and it’s now out: The World Beyond Your Head – how to flourish in an age of distraction . It’s about how we steward our attention. Crawford argues that what is often described as an ‘information economy’ could be described as an ‘attention economy’. The attention of individuals, what we choose to focus on, is a limited commodity and there is a lot of competiti

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