Attention-grubbing and practice

Yesterday somebody somewhere promoted my most recent Substack post resulting in almost 1300 hits and forty new subscribers. And I do mean actual subscribers, not the hundred or so friends and family I added at the outset so that I wouldn't feel so lonely (if that means you, I appreciate your continued indulgence and/or readership).

Much has been written in recent years about attention as a component of the contemporary economy, including by my new economist crush Kyla Scanlon, who refers to attention as a building block of modern living alongside fuel, air, water, etc. There's a lot of sense to that.

I am sometimes tempted to de-anonymize this blog and promote it more broadly to see what happens. So far I resist. I appreciate my core readership's continued patronage because, although attention is indeed important, it's not all that. As yogis down through the age have agreed, much of our focus needs to be on consistent practice.

AI thinks somewhat differently.