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The half-life of attention.

An essay on what survives the scroll · Hanley Leung
the argument

We got very good at being interesting.

Interesting is a transaction. It clears in a second and a half, and it settles to nothing. The scroll is a market that pays out in the same currency it takes.
a small experiment

A thousand things crossed your feed yesterday.

3.
Name three. Most rooms manage one — and it is almost always the thing that annoyed them.
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People will forget what you said, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
one more thing

Attention is rented. Memory is owned.

tonight

Write the one sentence.

Before the next thing you publish — post, deck, memo — spend five minutes writing the one sentence you want repeated back to you in a week. If you cannot write it, it is not finished; it is only interesting. Done is when someone else can say it without you.
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