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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

• p186 Michael Goldhaber 2024 talk: The Attention Economy and the Net

• p190 Twin contentions of book:

  • attention is a resource, a substance extracted for its market value
  • resource value growing, now the most important resource
• p193 Twitter/X daily 11pm meeting about boosting Musk tweet counts

• p193 Zoë SchifferExtremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

• p194 Zelensky uses comedian/performer skills to keep the world's attention
• p194 Musk is a black hole of negative charisma, spent tens of billions of dollars for attention

p195 Ch7 Public Attention

• p197 Lincoln-Douglas Debates mass communication defined by the written word as opposed to the image eBook 2008

• p198 A debate is an attentional regime

• p199 general Henry Martyn Robert Robert's Rules of Order 1876

• p205 both formal and substantive attentional regimes have collapsed, easier to shout, harder to be heard
• p206 Postman: Americans no longer talk to each other, they enterain each other. They do not exchange ideas; they exchange images.
• p207 Postman: Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance

• p208 The Braindead Megaphone George Saunders

• p209 ref24 vast wasteland

• p210 Hayes spent >8 years covering Trump full time, must but doesn't want to

• p212 repellant but transfixing, other candidates asked about Trump, not their own plans and policies

• p214 half support Muslim ban

• p215 Death of a Salesman, Vivek Ramaswamy

• p217 Trump constantly interrupted Biden in 2020 debate; "Will you shut up, man?"

• p218 Platforms: Google Facebook TikTok Hobbsian "every man against every man"

• p219 Platforms regulate attention to maximize monetization
• p220 5yo's better during reading time than phone-scrolling academics and executives at meetings

• p221 news media dual mandate: keep audience attention and tell them important things for self-governance

• p223 refugee plight vs Titan submarine tourists

• p225 2023 hottest summer in 150,000 years

• p225 Hurricane Hilary in Death Valley National Park first in 80 years

• p226 U.S. Open women's semifinal match, protester glued feet to floor

• p228 A. Lincoln: "public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed"

• p230 MTG’s eye-popping fundraising haul

• p232 Kanye. Elon. Trump. rapper praises Hitler

• p235 High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out Amanda Ripley conflict entrepreneurs

• p236 Current standard practice for mass shootings, describe the act and aftermath, downplay the perpetrator.

• p238 Whataboutism tu quoque

• p238 Ideological battles over what to focus on.

• p240 WaPo Fatal Force black men 1.8% of shootings, disproportionate coverage

• p240 There is no standard or objective criteria for choice of focus ... it's a judgement call.

• p241 Obama speech about Sandy Hook shooting purposely mistranslated into Arabic subtitles about anti-ISIS airstrikes

• p243 ref Naomi Klein Doppelganger 2023 Bvtn Lib

• p244 QAnon blood harvesting nonsense

• p245 Attention market disaggregation removes reputational cost of outlet unreliability
• p248 Information age promise: access to all human knowledge; reality, collective civic madness

• p248 hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave

• p249 shared public discourse, the burbling, insistent ruckus of a deeply unquiet mind.

p251 Ch8 Reclaiming Our Minds

• p252 The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok

  • 2023 American Dialect Society word of the year

• p252 It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber

• p253 Everyone, including me, complains they can't read long books anymore

• p254 commitment mechanisms

• p255 video stores effort, intentional choice, commitment

• p257 Vinyl LPsFrom Tape to Tidal: 4 Decades of U.S. Music Sales 2022 vinyl tiny but growing very slowly since 2015

• p263 Signal messaging service end-to-end encrypted

• p265 The Social Dilemma 2020 documentary

• p265 The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt WCCLS

• p265 Strother School of Radical Attention

• p266