From 4cb463ad406ffe98bc686c560181898e413d06d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cory Dransfeldt Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:45:43 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] chore: attention post --- README.md | 2 +- src/posts/2024/your-attention-is-precious.md | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 src/posts/2024/your-attention-is-precious.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 37f62d02..8ebcfa59 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ This is the code for my personal website and portfolio. Built using [11ty](https ## 📝 Recent posts +- [Link blogging using Readwise Reader](https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/link-blogging-using-readwise/) - [Your site, your home, your web](https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/your-site-your-home-your-web/) - [I found the music I love on the internet](https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/i-found-the-music-i-love-on-the-internet/) - [I removed Tailwind from my site](https://coryd.dev/posts/2023/i-removed-tailwind-from-my-site/) - [2023 in review](https://coryd.dev/posts/2023/2023-in-review/) -- [Programmatically importing your Last.fm listening data to ListenBrainz](https://coryd.dev/posts/2023/programmatically-importing-your-lastfm-listening-data-to-listenbrainz/) diff --git a/src/posts/2024/your-attention-is-precious.md b/src/posts/2024/your-attention-is-precious.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..304b632c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/posts/2024/your-attention-is-precious.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +date: '2024-01-11' +title: 'Your attention is precious' +description: "It's finite, it's exhaustible and it ought to be held close and carefully guarded." +draft: false +tags: + - 'development' + - 'tech' +--- + +It's finite, it's exhaustible and it ought to be held close and carefully guarded.[^1] + +Lately I've been working on dropping things that demand rather than allow for my attention. + +If a site makes too much noise in my feed reader, I'll drop it. + +If I've stopped enjoying [a show](https://trakt.tv/shows/the-curse)[^2], a book, a movie or, really, any other media I'll drop it and not feel guilty about doing so. If I've outgrown music or lost interest in it, I'll remove it from my collection. + +I'm trying my best to realize when something I've engaged with has become a sunk cost and I can move on from it without feeling guilty. + +It's exciting to find new things that interest me but it can also be exciting to recognize that something no longer serves me and I can reclaim the attention I was paying it. + +The things that are most insistent on gaining your attention are those least deserving of it.[^3] + +Hang out with your family, read a book, read a blog, write a post — don't feel obligated to scroll forever or waste your time on anything that's no longer serving you. + +[^1]: Thanks for spending some of it — however little — here! +[^2]: You cannot convince me this is worth going back to. +[^3]: If you send me *one* push notification that's not strictly related to what I've installed your app to do, I'll turn them off. If you hound me to turn them on when I open your app, I'll uninstall it. \ No newline at end of file