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The Sirens' Call How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

Chris Hayes

From the We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they’re us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we fe...

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All In with Chris Hayes

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All In with Chris Hayes

In the episode, host Chris Hayes highlighted the book as the result of his three‑year research on how attention has become a scarce commodity, noting its impact on democratic debate, public life, and personal well‑being. He presented it as a central theme of his work and suggested listeners explore its insights. The discussion conveyed a strong endorsement.

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It is about how attention became the most important resource of our time and how the constant extraction of attention from us is driving us all a bit insane. The book explores how this affects democratic debate, public life, and our inner lives.

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It's also what I have spent the last three years thinking about and researching. And in fact, I wrote a book about it.

The book is called The Siren's Call, How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource.

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