an academic paper on attention as a public good10:50
“one of the ideas that influenced me which came from an academic paper that I a I don't remember the authors to cite, but is to think about attention as a public good or collective resource.”
“And, like, you just can't achieve. The goal is affordable housing. And so what I care about, the point of abundance, the first sentence of it, basically, of the book, is what do we need more of and how do we get it?”
“Desperately compensating with all of the books behind. No, I, um, I noticed with myself that one of the best questions that I asked myself on an annual review a couple of years ago was, um, what do I think is productive that isn't, and what do I not think is productive, but is, and going for a walk without AirPods in.”
“There's a great, it's not a controversy. It's a Neil Postman argument that he makes in Amusing Ourselves to Death, which is always one of my books I recommend to people.”
“show. It'd be a very interesting conversation, but he's somebody who I think is very, he's a very sensitive touch for the politics of a moment. And I mean, you look at his book, like young man in a hurry, the one he just released, which is unusually interesting for a politician, which is not a high bar.”
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“one of the ideas that influenced me which came from an academic paper that I a I don't remember the authors to cite, but is to think about attention as a public good or collective resource.”
“did you follow the solving of this? Erdos theorem?”
“There's a RAND study about how much it costs to construct per square foot in California, Texas, Colorado.”