When I saw the title of this article in my notifications I immediately jumped to read it, as it’s almost word for word something I’d say is central to my own way of thinking. However, after having read it, I felt it didn’t get to the core of the title and left wanting more to resonate with.
This article seems to highlight one specific aspect of the broader topic of “agency x orientation” which is specifically the idea of internally selected orientation vs externally imposed or osmotically received orientation.
I think it’s fully worthwhile to discuss that aspect, and I appreciate that it was, but I’d have loved to see more said about specifically the relationship between agency, orientation, and outcomes, rather than a primary focus on the warning against unconsciously received orientation.
The last two paragraphs felt like getting to the start of the meat but it was the end. Maybe the shape of the essay feels inverted to me, but that might be personal temperament/appetite for analytical explication as opposed to more of a short-form journey. I do think once it got to the explicit thesis at the end, I’d have liked to see more development of implications and application of the thesis.
I don’t say this hoping it comes off as critical so much as I think you have more to say! I’d love to hear you expound on this topic in the future. Thanks sherry :)
Treating attention as time in its liquid, spendable form is such a sharp framework. We guard our actual wallets with multi-factor authentication, yet routinely leave the vault of our cognitive bandwidth wide open for algorithms to raid.
If our daily attention is actively writing our biography, then scrolling without a clear intention is just letting strangers write our life story for us
Great stuff as always! Not sure that it's so exciting, but maybe, one day, you can think about how the historical accumulation of ads/marketing makes our needs deviate from their natural resting place. Just for instance, as you recently got married, how did marketing make diamonds "eternal"?
perfectly timed; you really are so talented at naming the new substances we find ourselves swimming in. to this i say, exploit my agency. the only control i believe i have is how freely i let my agency be used by others, and that does mean something to me :)
When I saw the title of this article in my notifications I immediately jumped to read it, as it’s almost word for word something I’d say is central to my own way of thinking. However, after having read it, I felt it didn’t get to the core of the title and left wanting more to resonate with.
This article seems to highlight one specific aspect of the broader topic of “agency x orientation” which is specifically the idea of internally selected orientation vs externally imposed or osmotically received orientation.
I think it’s fully worthwhile to discuss that aspect, and I appreciate that it was, but I’d have loved to see more said about specifically the relationship between agency, orientation, and outcomes, rather than a primary focus on the warning against unconsciously received orientation.
The last two paragraphs felt like getting to the start of the meat but it was the end. Maybe the shape of the essay feels inverted to me, but that might be personal temperament/appetite for analytical explication as opposed to more of a short-form journey. I do think once it got to the explicit thesis at the end, I’d have liked to see more development of implications and application of the thesis.
I don’t say this hoping it comes off as critical so much as I think you have more to say! I’d love to hear you expound on this topic in the future. Thanks sherry :)
Write it yourself
Ok 😃 will actually do that good idea
Treating attention as time in its liquid, spendable form is such a sharp framework. We guard our actual wallets with multi-factor authentication, yet routinely leave the vault of our cognitive bandwidth wide open for algorithms to raid.
If our daily attention is actively writing our biography, then scrolling without a clear intention is just letting strangers write our life story for us
Makes me think about how Ariana Reines called advertising “satanic poetry”
Great stuff as always! Not sure that it's so exciting, but maybe, one day, you can think about how the historical accumulation of ads/marketing makes our needs deviate from their natural resting place. Just for instance, as you recently got married, how did marketing make diamonds "eternal"?
Queen Ning at it again 💕👑
perfectly timed; you really are so talented at naming the new substances we find ourselves swimming in. to this i say, exploit my agency. the only control i believe i have is how freely i let my agency be used by others, and that does mean something to me :)