The Attention Economy and the Book of Job || SLP466
The Speak Life Podcast
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We live in an attention economy. Your eyeballs and your eardrums are on sale. And there is huge money to be made by getting and keeping your attention. It's basically how all social media makes its money apart from Twitter which Elon Musk has chosen now will be a subscription fee but for most of us the platforms we're on are free. Our attention is very precious. It is a finite resource. The comedian Bo Burnham said that we used to colonize land. We've just got human attention left. You can keep someone's attention for 24 hours a day. Have you put a little device in their pocket that's going to kind of give them a little nudge every
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