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Zeni Perez
Zeni Perez is 72% done
There’s no community on the internet, just people and their collective attention reserves. People that spam have no shame. Our attention is getting spread thin everyday. Watching multiple screens at once, retaining half of it.

Some people trade attention for money. Others vice versa. At best people trade attention to turn one material into another, hopefully for good.
— May 25, 2026 02:05PM
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

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Zeni Perez
Zeni Perez is 92% done
Conspiracies, trolling, and “what about this” grow with the attention economy
— May 28, 2026 07:46PM
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource


Zeni Perez
Zeni Perez is 81% done
“Amusement will outcompete information, and spectacle will outcompete arguments”
— May 27, 2026 08:55PM
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource


Zeni Perez
Zeni Perez is 75% done
I really need more people to lock in on watching longer forms of media with nuance & depth in real time.
— May 26, 2026 08:54PM
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource


Zeni Perez
Zeni Perez is 64% done
If you’re conditioned for info poverty, you don’t realize how precious attention is now
— May 24, 2026 06:06PM
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Zeni Perez
Zeni Perez is 57% done
Attention as currency makes us more isolated and alienated as our algorithms customize for us, our only connections to each other now are when we share it together. It’s used to be TV watching together, now it’s TikTok
— May 24, 2026 09:28AM
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource


Zeni Perez
Zeni Perez is 39% done
I couldn’t be famous. Have to view yourself by strangers is too much
— May 22, 2026 01:42PM
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource


Zeni Perez
Zeni Perez is 35% done
Social attention is being the object of someone’s attention or someone paying attention to you. Without it, we go insane, we can’t do solitude. The possibility of reciprocating it is the basis of all social relationships but not enough to sustain all of them.
— May 19, 2026 07:25PM
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource


Zeni Perez
Zeni Perez is 31% done
Maybe boredom is a modern invention. Before technology advances, we were always social because it meant survival. Newborns are dependent on attention to live. Meditation is less common as we need a constant distraction it’s harder to choose to sit still with our thoughts.
— May 18, 2026 08:14PM
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource


Zeni Perez
Zeni Perez is 27% done
The more leisure time you have the more boredom too
— May 18, 2026 03:50PM
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource


Zeni Perez
Zeni Perez is 22% done
We already know social media apps sell our data to ads to try to sell to us personally. What else is new
— May 16, 2026 05:30PM
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource


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