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“If you can’t be heard, it doesn’t matter what you say. And right now it’s both easier than ever to shout and harder than ever to be heard.”
― Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

“Information is abundant; attention is scarce. Information is theoretically infinite, while attention is constrained. This is why information is cheap and attention is expensive.”
― Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

“When we speak of these not as things or natural resources or commodities, but as gifts, our whole relationship to the natural world changes.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“The promise of the information age was unparalleled access to every single last bit of human knowledge at every moment, and the reality is a collective civic mental life that permanently teeters on the edge of madness.”
― Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource