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- ## The Attention Arms Race – When AI Both Protects and Pollutes

May 25, 2025

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Curtis McHale

You go to Google to screen out irrelevant information and to reliably focus on the output of Googles information processing system. This gives Google exclusive access to the most precious resource, which is your attention. And since they have your attention, they can sell your attention to interested parties. – The Sirens’ Call – Chris…

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- ## Old Tools, Quiet Moments, and Slower Living – A Rebellion Against the Frenzy

May 24, 2025

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Curtis McHale

New stuff isn’t necessarily better I agree, old software has value. One of Cal Newport’s books puts forward the idea that we automatically view any new technology as good, he contrasts this with the Amish who evaluate the utility of a technology in helping them maintain the way of life they want to have. This…

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- ## Back to analogue to reduce overwhelm

May 21, 2025

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Curtis McHale

Yup, analogue tools can help reduce overwhelm because they don’t notify you. They just sit there and do their jobs.

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- ## From Billboards to Big Tech: When Will We Draw the Line on Attention Theft?

May 18, 2025

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Curtis McHale

In Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, commercial artists began putting up posters around the city advertising venues and shows and the like. It was so effective that soon posters were covering every surface of the city, leading to a concerted push by Parisians to regulate and rein in what had become visual…

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- ## Rejecting Status, Resisting YouTube, and Redefining Success in Unseen Work

May 17, 2025

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Curtis McHale

Unstatus Joan had an interesting post about stepping away from the status markers of society. While many people are stepping away from the traditional markers of status, cars/houses, that also shows the status they have as she acknowledges. Rejecting conventional status markers often requires already possessing substantial financial, social, and cultural capital. The lawyer can…

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- ## White and Pink Noise from the Terminal

May 14, 2025

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Curtis McHale

I was travelling recently and realized I didn’t pack the small fan I often would bring on trips since I’m used to sleeping with a fan at home. Luckily with a quick search I found this excellent StackExchange answer to use SoX that come with some excellent formula’s in the answers. Installing SoX was a…

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- ## Screens Steal Connection

May 11, 2025

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Curtis McHale

Never before in human life on the planet have more people had access to a wider array of diversions at each waking instant. And yet, we are increasingly stalked, as the King is, by the sense that it’s not enough. The more diversions available the more diversion we need, and the more intolerable we find…

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- ## From Cancelled Talks to Digital Gardens – The Power of Uncomfortable Ideas

May 10, 2025

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Curtis McHale

Ryan Holiday’s Cancelled Talk Recently Ryan Holiday had his talk at the US Naval Academy cancelled which means that we’re really looking at the Streisand effect where his talk is going to get far more coverage than it would of presented to a small group of Navy recruits. This talk is about wisdom, here are…

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- ## The Siren Caught Me Scrolling

May 4, 2025

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Curtis McHale

This is our first look at Siren’s Call by Chris Hayes, and it’s a bit of a confession from me. Hayes hit me pretty hard by page 4 when he equated the world around us, particularly the online platforms, to the Sirens from the Greek myth of Odysseus. Online platforms called to me via Facebook,…

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- ## April 2025 Book Recap

May 3, 2025

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Curtis McHale

Non Fiction Making it So by Patrick Steward My wife got me this for Chrismas 2023 and I finally sat down and read the wonderful book looking at the life of Patrick Steward from his perspective. A few things stand out to me, he was 45 when he got the roll as Captian Picard in…

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