The Attention > Information Paradigm

Welf von Hören
11 min readNov 17, 2020

Originally written on February 19th 2020

The abundance of information around us creates a scarcity of attention. Attention is not just the surface layer, but in a sense the whole stack of capacities we use to navigate life.

This scarcity frustrates our need for personal transformation, and is central to the meta-crisis of our time.

What does it mean to live in a world of attention scarcity?

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