Tag: attention

• Meditations on Hunting

  Can’t remember how I came upon it, but I recently read Meditations on Hunting by philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, published in 1972 and apparently considered a classic in hunting literature. It isn’t really about hunting itself, but the philosophies that undergird it and the meaning it can provide. I found great wisdom in these […]

  December 15, 2020

  Books, Nature

  attention, books, hunting, nature, philosophy, quotes

• Are You Paying Attention? On ‘The Social Dilemma’ and ‘My Octopus Teacher’

  I don’t have to go looking for synchronicity because it always finds me. This time it was on Netflix. The other day I watched Netflix’s new docu-drama The Social Dilemma (trailer) based on the recommendation from a friend and a lively text thread about its implications. The film’s thesis is that social networks are engineered […]

  October 8, 2020

  Film, Life, Nature, Review, Technology

  attention, Baby Comello, film, Netflix, octopus, social media, synchronicity, technology

• They podcast me back in

  “If your mind is forever filled with the voices of others, how do you know what you think about anything? Pulling attention apart is pulling a mind apart.” After watching this video by CGP Grey about attention (h/t C.J. Chilvers), I deleted over half of my podcast subscriptions. I’ve culled the list before, but like […]

  September 21, 2018

  Media

  attention, podcasts, social media

• Lynda Barry: ‘Writing by hand on paper is becoming a revolutionary act’

  Artist Lynda Barry writes: Writing by hand on paper is becoming a revolutionary act. Reading a physical book is becoming a revolutionary act. Protecting the books in our libraries, the arts and humanities in our colleges and universities is becoming a revolutionary act. Doing things with warm hand to warm hand, face to face, without […]

  March 30, 2018

  Arts, Writing

  attention, Facebook, Lynda Barry, preservation of tangibility, privacy, technology, writing