Status Updates From El valor de la atención: Po...

Wait, what? Changing social media platforms such as Facebook to “subscription-only” models will dismantle surveillance capitalism? LOL.

It’s taking me a bit longer to read this book not because I don’t like it. I do. But I don’t like rushing learning books specially going thru a social media detox this year myself. It’s so interesting and even tho I’m only in chapter 5 I have learned so much already.

"After the war, he + his parents ended up in a refugee camp, which he found squalid, + lacking in hope. One day, in these ruins of a life, Mihaly was told that he was going to join a Scout troop for boys in the camp, + he started going out into the wilderness with them. He discovered that he felt most alive when he was doing something difficult, like navigating a steep ascent.... He thinks this experience saved him."

It took him until now to finally say that it’s not a laziness problem, it’s the world/tech designed to capture our attention for as long as possible…