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Time and Attention Workshop

Nitzan Hermon
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Ahead of a new four-week workshop on Time and Attention Management, I am sharing quotes from previous writings on attention, time, and information.

Being generous all the time is not the most generous thing you can do. Your time, attention, and value are not linear, so deploying these in service of others cannot be either.
Media takes ideas from yourself and brings them to more people than you know. Because you can't be present in the communication, cutting just enough meaning (/energy) to make them immediately legible and competitive for attention is necessary.
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