Our two most precious currencies are time and attention. I’ve been writing about attention—how we spend it, fritter it away, hoard it, manipulate it—for decades. My doctoral work was about how theatergoers improvisationally deploy multiple types of attention during a live show. I’m fascinated by Behavioral Economics, which is an adjacent field. Here are the many articles I’ve written about attention, starting back in 2014 when I was living in Norway.
Presidential Laughter (May 10, 2026)
Leaps of Faith (but not that kind) (Jan 18, 2026)
Attentuon (Jan 26, 2026)
“Change Your Life” Productivity Tools & How to Use Them (Oct 26, 2025)
The Distraction Button (Aug 3, 2025)
The End of Filter Failure? (Mar 24, 2024)
Attention is Not a Currency (3/19/23)
Musk, Trump, Twitter, and New Media Math (4/17/22)
Distraction Audits & Why to Do One (Apr 10, 2022)
AQ: The President’s No-Lose Media Equation (7/12/18)
New Media Math & the President’s NYT Obsession (7/31/18)
The challenge of OOOIO: opting out of information overload (May 16, 2018)
It’s not information overload: it’s information hoarding (February 28, 2018)
Smart Phones and Drained Brains (July 27, 2017)
Notes from Bergen (8/27/14)