The Glowing Rectangle: Zen and the Attention Economy
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Your phone is not a tool. It's a slot machine disguised as a tool, built by people who studied neuroscience specifically to make it harder to put down.
This book is about two things. The first is how that happened — the economics, the engineering, the behavioral science that turned your attention into a product to be sold. You'll meet the researchers who proved variable rewards work, the designers who built them into your pocket, and the attention economists who mapped it all out long before you noticed.
The second is what to actually do about it. Not tips. Not another app. But a practice — one drawn from twenty-five centuries of Zen training on the same problem: a mind that wanders, gets caught, and mistakes the maybe for the real.
The Glowing Rectangle sits at the intersection of two bodies of knowledge that rarely talk to each other. The monks figured out how attention works. The engineers figured out how to exploit it. This book teaches you to notice the difference.
For anyone tired of feeling like a product, and ready to train.
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