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"One Call Away" is a song by American singer-songwriter #CharliePuth. It was released on August 20, 2015, by #AtlanticRecords as the second single from his debut studio album, #NineTrackMind (2016). "One Call Away" is a #gospel-infused #pop-#soul song. It reached number 12 on the #Billboard Hot 100, making it Puth's third top 40 single in the US and his third highest-charting single as a lead artist to date, behind "#WeDontTalkAnymore" and "#Attention".
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@shojiwax.com
.. hmm 🤫 .. that's a story❗️ .. good length for today's attention deficit disordered times .. I mean kidz these days will feel they've read War & Peace without .. ya know .. um .. reading War & Peace .. nice for them guys .. they've achieved a lot by the finish .. brilliant work, mate [yeah, I know Aussie lingo 🙏] .. for boosting their confidence 'n' all .. nice❗👌 #war&peace #reading #tales #photography #journalism #attention #reportage #writing #titbits

Another very good essay by @Daojoan:

»The economy of attention doesn’t ask what you think; it asks how fast you can say it, how loud, and how often.«

»And here’s the irony: when I stopped chasing eyeballs, I started building trust. When I ditched the algorithm, I found an audience. Not a crowd—an audience. People who don’t just scroll past, but actually stop. Read. Think. Reply.«

Certainly worth your attention 🖖🏻

#socialmedia #attention #economy #write #sosollweb

joanwestenberg.com/notes-from-

Westenberg. · Notes from the Exit: Why I Left the Attention EconomyI didn’t leave the attention economy because I hated it. I left because I understood it, because once you see the system for what it is—a parasitic loop that rewards noise over nuance, metrics over meaning, reaction over reflection—you have two choices. Keep optimizing for reach, or

🚀🌟 Breaking news! The skill of the #future isn't AI, it's "Focus"! 🎯🙄 Can you hear that? It's the sound of every AI enthusiast collectively eye-rolling at the idea that humans might still need to concentrate on something other than TikTok and cat memes. 😂 Let's all take a moment to "focus" on the #irony. 🤔💡
carette.xyz/posts/focus_will_b #Focus #Attention #Skills #HackerNews #ngated

Journey into a wild pointer · The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus'Don't let AI erode your focus.
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"The reason you begin tracking your data is that you have
some uncertainty about yourself that you believe the data
can illuminate. It’s about introspection, reflection, seeing
patterns, and arriving at realizations about who you are
and how you might change."
—Eric Boyd, self-tracker

an article by Natasha D. Schüll, 2019, "The Data-Based Self:
Self-Quantification and the Data-Driven (Good) Life" natashadowschull.org/wp-conten