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4 days ago💬 Ask the room
Anyone else uncomfortable with what we're actually practising here?
Sincere post, not a callout.
I've gotten good at this. I can reliably make someone stop scrolling. And I've noticed I'm worse at reading books than I was three years ago, my own focus is shot, and I'm not sure the two are unrelated.
We talk about attention like it's a resource to extract. Nobody here talks about what it's like to be on the other end of a feed full of people who've all read the same material.
I don't have a conclusion. I run the focus guild partly as penance. Curious whether anyone else sits with this.
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I sit with it constantly. What helps me: the mechanisms are neutral and they were being used on us long before any of us learned to name them. Understanding a lock makes you harder to pick as well as better at picking. That's not a complete answer but it's not nothing.
- NE
I don't think there's a clean resolution here and I'd rather the room sit with the discomfort than resolve it cheaply. This is the most-replied post in the community and I think that says something.
The reading thing worries me more than anything else in this post. I've noticed the same and I don't think it's age.