If your attention is a scarce resource, how are you spending it?

• Being a scarce resource I try and devote a lot of my time to learning and paying attention to things that matter to me currently! What's important to me are my current passions and interest I hold in life, a few being family/love, coding, and rock climbing. I try and devote as much of my attention resources on that.

What are some other examples of how you’re susceptible to the ‘attention economy’ that you’ve noticed?

• Defintely going down the rabbit hole of youtube endlessness. YouTube has created a phenemonal system where they will play another video directly after the current video you've watched ends, which can be highly addicting and a wasteful use of time haha.

Are there any benefits to the “Attention Economy”?

• We learn more about the human psyche and behavior. Utilizing this information we can use this type of data to progress intellectually and emotional as a society by targeting things in a conducive manner.

Whose responsibility is it to spend our time wisely (technology companies or us as human)?

• Both should hold a responsibility. If you're a tech company and you hold knowledge that can be weilded in either a positive or negative manner, it should be a societal responsibility of yours to educate and possibly create awareness. Same goes for humans!

If it’s up to the company, what are some strategies they could employ to ensure that their users are spending their time well while using their applications, while also maintaining revenue?

• I've noticed video games have implemented notifications to take breaks and create awareness for not over doing your time dedicated to playing. Companies could also have these types of notifications pop up and display.

If the responsibility is us on as humans to avoid clicking and using, what could we do to spend our time wisely, while also not exhibiting too much “FOMO”?

• Educate each other, promote a healthy mindset through this education. Understand that time is valuable and should be spent wisely although having a plethora of options out there.

Let’s say you have a meditation application that you know will help people, but the only way compete with Facebook, Snapchat, etc. is to add daily notifications and maybe a meditation streak game, which kind of defeats the purpose of an app that’s supposed to bring you emotional peace.

As a junior, what do you do?

• Decide what's important to you! There shouldn't be a correct or right answer to this. Either decide whether you want to play the game, change the game, or create a whole new approach! Depends what you prioritze in life I suppose.

As a more senior “technologist” (senior dev, or founder / CTO)

• Again same sentiment as above. As far as my opinion goes, I would hopefully opt to change the approach and or find a job/industry that would allow to exercise that level of freedom.

How will you manage your attention resources while you are here at Turing? How will you use the "Attention Economy" in your future?

• I need to focus on coding and immersing myself with that on a daily/hourly basis, of course taking into consideration the people around me and my health as well :)