Living With Distracting Tech

19/07/2022 46 min

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Episode Synopsis

What we attend to is what we value. We cannot live a life of merely avoiding distraction because we will always be giving attention to something. By definition, a distraction is something that takes our attention away from something else. So what do we value? Do we value scrolling social media newsfeeds? Do we value the *ding* notifications in the midst of trying to do work? Why are we on our phones so much?In this episode, we work through what distractions are, how to think about our "attention economy," and how to live a life where our attention is not distracted.Links:Alan Jacobs' Habits of Mind in an Age of DistractionL.M. Sacasas' We Are Not Living in a Simulation, We Are Living In the PastAndy Crouch's The Life We're Looking ForL.M. Sacasas' Your Attention is not a ResourceMichael Goldhaber's 1997 Wired Essay on Attention EconomyCarl Trueman's The Rise and Triumph of the Modern SelfCarl Trueman's Strange New World