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- Apr 2022
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www.iantay.dev www.iantay.dev
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Programmable attention centers around making high-level decisions that orchestrate how we later spend our attention. It is rife in everyday life, albeit (usually) in a weak way. Examples include:email inboxes with snoozessetting a recurring event on the calendartodos which appear based on locationGetting Things Done “Tickler” Fileshabit-enforcing systems (e.g. Beeminder, StickK)spaced repetition (e.g. Anki, SuperMemo)ML-trained “smart email inboxes”
We already use programmable attention in everyday life, but it should be more integrated, potentially at an OS level.
HeyFocus and ad blockers could also be considered under this umbrella.
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minn.substack.com minn.substack.com
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next wave of human-computer interaction will focus more on “pushing” us the right, relevant information versus the user “pulling” for information
This is already happening with ads. It'd be nice if the same techniques were used to pre-emptively help us instead.
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