Visual Crack

Not my words, but Y Combinator, general good guy Paul Graham’s in a great article about the Attention Crash:

‘Chesterfield described dirt as matter out of place. Distracting is, similarly, desirable at the wrong time. And technology is continually being refined to produce more and more desirable things. Which means that as we learn to avoid one class of distractions, new ones constantly appear, like drug-resistant bacteria.’

I thought Chesterfield was a type of gun or a cigarette I once smoked to look cool in front of topless ladies on a beach in Nice when I was an exchange student.

Steve ‘beige polo shirt’ Rubel has some greats posts about this modern malaise, which seems to be crippling most Gen Xers and empowering Millenials. As I consider myself a Post Xer/Pre-Millenial/Neo Despot, I am both afflicted by the Attention Crash but also carrying antibodies necessary to manufacture a vaccine.

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