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.
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
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
- p056 apps designed to engage our social personality
p059 Ch3 The Root of Evil
p081 Ch4 Social Attention
p115 Ch5 Alienation
p155 Ch6 Dawn of the Attention Age
p195 Ch7 Public Attention