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Is attention the true scarce resource of our century?
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If attention recovers, what is the right unit of policy?
Working through the Chen & Tokoro meta-analysis in public. Methodological objections welcome and expected.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
Two systems of thought — fast, intuitive judgement and slow, deliberate reasoning — and the predictable errors of the first.
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The Shallows
Nicholas Carr · 2010
Argues that networked media reshapes reading into scanning, trading depth of comprehension for breadth of exposure.
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The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring
Benjamin S. Bloom · 1984
Reports that tutored students outperformed conventionally taught peers by roughly two standard deviations, framing the challenge of scaling tutoring.
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Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence
Richard A. Easterlin · 1974
The original statement of the Easterlin paradox: within countries richer people report more happiness, yet national happiness does not rise with long-run growth.
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Attention as a Scarce Resource in Digital Environments
L. Chen, K. Tokoro · 2024
A meta-analysis of 62 studies on interruption cost, arguing attention behaves less like a stock and more like a recovering tissue.
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This Is Water — Kenyon commencement address
David Foster Wallace · 2005
Twenty minutes on attention as a moral discipline: what you choose to notice is what your adult life is made of.