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Asking what your attention feeds and incentivizes

5 tweets · February 2019 · 33 likes · 6 retweets · read on Twitter

With everything you do, ask yourself: What am I feeding? What am I incentivising? What am I adding energy to by paying attention to it? It's not always obvious. It requires learning to ignore what you don't want & exalt what you do want.

Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv ·

"Lauren Ipsum wins award" 5 RTs, 13 likes - "SAY HER NAME, $NEWSORG" ___________________ | | |"Woman wins award"| |___________________| 17,325 RTs, 64,523 Likes

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Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

@visakanv People arr habituated to orient to what they *don't* want. And the question "what _do_ I want?" is a fundamentally different type. You can watch people answer "what do you want?" questions in the negative.

To take Visa's excellent example: If you're a person who is reading this tweet & currently has a habit of saying "say her name, newsorg" ➡️every time you would do that, instead, find another newsorg covering that story WITH her name and RT that. (& maybe block/mute 1st newsorg)

Related, this excellent thread by @ncasenmare on free speech twitter.com/ncasenmare/sta…

Here's another great positive example from @patio11:

Patrick McKenzie @patio11 ·

“Here's a budget breakdown of a couple that makes $500,000 a year and still feels average.” Currently trending news article; no citation because I don’t like rewarding evil. This sentence was intentionally crafted to make an audience hate someone to maximize ad revenue.