Of course, such a solution isn’t good for business, nor can it be considered particularly innovative. But in the long meantime, as I sit in the deep bowl of the Rose Garden, surrounded by various human and nonhuman bodies, inhabiting a reality interwoven by myriad bodily sensitivities besides my own—indeed, the very boundaries of my own body overcome by the smell of jasmine and just-ripening blackberry—I look down at my phone and wonder if it isn’t its own kind of sensory-deprivation chamber. That tiny, glowing world of metrics cannot compare to this one, which speaks to me instead in breezes,
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I honestly hated this first chapter. It's overwritten to hell without actually saying much, taking its best ideas from other works, and it kept repeating the same format of "idea! Concession... But Idea! Concession.." all that being said, i like that it has gotten me to think about where our societal values in attention lie, but i honestly drk if it's that deep. Phones harness short attention spans. I hope it gets better and more layered
