Slinging Dollars

The brilliant people from Silicon Valley know what we want. They see how we salivate over notifications. Just a few pixels with numbers inside. Those pixels give us significance. Our minds drift towards them when we’d rather give our spouse, art, book 100% of us.

“Just a quick look”, while waiting in the checkout line. Do we ever consider the boring checkout line to be fertile soil for new ideas or insightful observations?

The brain channels must be clear. They must be easy for potential ideas to travel through. Social timelines are good at clogging up the channels. Some ideas will still make it through to the “aha!” center. Others will drown.

Our attention is what they want. It’s what they sell.

Time is paid for with attention dollars.

Why throw dollar bills at something that, quite honestly, rarely pays off?

If you’re feeling uninspired, blocked up, anxious, insignificant, try taking a break. Try a day, a week, a month. Just to see how it feels.