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The Sirens' Call

How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

Chris Hayes 2025 Beaverton 306.342 HAY

p001 Ch1 The Sirens' Call

• p001 Odysseus, Circe, and the Sirens

• p003 William James The Principles of Psychology 1890 My experience is what I agree to attend to.

• p005 The phones are warbling us to death.

• p005 Plato's Phaedrus the perils of writing

• p006 Jonathan Haidt 2024 The Anxious Generation smart-phones -> depression, anxiety, and self-harm

• p007 Stanley Cohen 1972 Folk Devils and Moral Panics

• p010 Johann Hari 2022 Stolen Focus

• p016 Naomi Klein 1999 No Logo

• p018 Walter Lippman 1925 The Phantom Public

p027 Ch2 The Slot Machine and Uncle Sam

• p029 No One Knows What Attention Is

• p030 voluntary attention Ball passing and gorilla The Invisible Gorilla book WCCLS, Beaverton

• p031 involuntary attention siren, crash of dishes

• p036 social attention - noticing a mention of your name while focusing on something else
• p042 Hijacked airliner passenger so bored that he almost fell asleep
• p042 War is boring . Tim O'Brien . The Things They Carried . YA novel
• p046 koumiss fermented mare's milk, about 2% alcohol
• p049 Cable news is a televised siren
• p050 slot machines, electronic games displacing card tables

• p051 Addiction by Design Natasha Dow Schüll

  • slot addict attentional trance, "I'm not playing to win"

• p053 Hayes's iPhone Screen Time, 5 hours 16 minutes per day

  • note48 Brian Fung 2013 WaP Humankind has now spent more time playing Call of Duty than it has existed on Earth

• p056 apps designed to engage our social personality

p059 Ch3 The Root of Evil

• p063 Original affluent societyMarshall Sahlins

• p071 Infinite Jest Novel 1996 David Foster Wallace

• p073 boredom's alter ego: distraction
• p076 Boredom: ratchet of stimulation and diversion - liberation by simply rejecting boredom

• p078 zoning out opposite of attention ZerstreuheitThe Principles of Psychology p404 James

• p078 How to Do Nothing Jenny Odell

  • https://screentimelabs.com/ manage child screen time

p081 Ch4 Social Attention

• p082 Child maltreatment: 74% neglected, 28% physically abused
• p086 bedroom per family member, 17th century invention

• p092 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein

• p105 boundary between public and private "torn down in about a decade" by a few tech firms

• p108 Death of a Salesman 1949 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller | Arthur Miller ]]

• p108 Reply guy

p115 Ch5 Alienation

• p122 The Attention Merchants 2016 Tim Wu

• p133 always present smartphones increase supply of attention

• p142 2020 Fox lost attention to Newsmax and One America News

• p142 Fox lost $787M for defaming Dominion Voting Systems

• p144 Bo Burnham colonization of attention

• p151 Author ate half a THC gummy and looked at sandwiches on Tiktok, algorithm figured out he was stoned

p155 Ch6 Dawn of the Attention Age

• p165 Herbert Simon Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World

• p166 To be an attention conserver ... system must be an information condenser.

• p167 Steve Jobs "How many things have you said no to?"

• p169 Total Factor Productivity increased 2%/y 1910-1970; 1994-2004 1%/y, 2004-2014 0.4%/y

• p172 Shoshana Zuboff surveillance capitalism

• p174 "in its chase for profits, Google has ended up spamming its own users"

  • alternatives Bing/DuckDuckGo Yahoo Brave Perplexity SearX

• p181 Finn Brunton: Spammers waste our time for their benefit

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p195 Ch7 Public Attention

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• p243 ref Naomi Klein Doppelganger 2023 Bvtn Lib

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p251 Ch8 Reclaiming Our Minds

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