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“Attention, as well as being a commodity that can be monetised through digital platforms, is a psychological wage. We know this from when we are children: think of the heaven of basking in the glow of an attentive parent or teacher. To be recognised is to be told that you matter, that your life has worth and that you have a place in the world. There’s nothing unhealthy about that. But our media and politics leverage the psychological wages of attention in a way that is utterly corrosive and warping.”

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Book:Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
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“You grant companies access to your attention so that they can alter your choices in exchange for entertainment. You identify with groups and grant them the ability to choose for you which problems you will be most concerned about. You listen to a friend when they care about something, and then you care about it too. One of the most powerful traits of your system is how ardently you believe in your individuality while simultaneously operating almost entirely as a collective.”

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Book:A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
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“In recent years, the lives we live seem to be getting busier and busier. Technology has increasingly made its way into every part of our existence — nearly everyone has powerful smartphones in their hands, pockets, or somewhere close. Economic and societal pressure has increased the need, or at least the perception, that we should always be doing and striving for more.”

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Book:The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
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“Our devices don’t have feelings (yet!) — if they did, they would be equivalent to the needy narcissistic partner for whom no amount of attention is ever enough. They superficially appear to care about you, give you just enough positive feedback to keep you interested in them, but never genuinely ask how you feel about your relation- ship. You doubt that you should get more serious, but it’s too easy to stay.”

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Book:The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
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“Consider the telling expression ‘pay attention.’ Attention, as I see it, is the original currency. If you look closely enough at this divine sense with your sixth sense, you can actually see its powerful current flowing. And let it be noted that you almost always end up seeing whatever you’re currently paying for.”

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Book:Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
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“If enlightenment had a Wi-Fi signal, we’d all still be buffering.Real peace today begins not with silence, but with signal control”

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Book:DEPROGRAMMING THE DIGITAL SELF: Conscious Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Intelligence | A new model for understanding human evolution in the age of artificial awareness
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“In ancient philosophy, prana was life energy. In the digital era, attention is.”

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Book:DEPROGRAMMING THE DIGITAL SELF: Conscious Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Intelligence | A new model for understanding human evolution in the age of artificial awareness
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“If your digital environment doesn’t evolve your mind, it’s not information - it’s noise.”

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Book:DEPROGRAMMING THE DIGITAL SELF: Conscious Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Intelligence | A new model for understanding human evolution in the age of artificial awareness
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“The algorithm has become the new biographer of identity - one who edits without consent.”

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Book:DEPROGRAMMING THE DIGITAL SELF: Conscious Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Intelligence | A new model for understanding human evolution in the age of artificial awareness
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