Rewilding our Information Intake
"You’re the same way; you contain your own etcetera Whitmanian multitudes, your pockets of woolly-eyed obsession. We all do." ~ Clive Thompson Clive Thompson, writing in Medium, provides two good post about "rewilding your attention." The first, from August, found here and the second, more recent one, with tips on how to achieve this "rewilding" available here . There is something about this idea of "rewilding" that I really like. In our modern digital age I think that it is all too easy to fall into traps of stagnancy and monotony. Our algorithmic world makes it very easy for our attention to be crowded by what is trending and "viral" at any moment. This in turn can have the capacity to burn us out. It isn't to say that nothing viral is without interest or value, but it might not actually be the primary things that target our personal interest and promote a sense of wonder in our lives. So rewilding, breaking out of the curated a...