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 I started reading The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes almost a month ago, but the first time I picked it up I got 20 pages in and then got distracted by the internet.
It was a deeply ironic and deeply appropriate way to kick off reading a book about attention in the modern technological world. I didn’t pick the book back up until last week when I took a low-internet vacation to rural Switzerland (that’s why you haven’t seen anything from the blog for the last ten days or so!). I spent last week in the Swiss Alps staring at mountains, mostly ignoring the internet and my phone, reading voraciously and contemplating Hayes’s book on the nature of human attention.
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