
❤️🩹 Fractured Attention & Financial Scarcity — Quitting Instagram with Jenni Gritters
About this episode
Jenni Gritters recently hosted me for a Your Attention is Sacred book club, and I’m excited to share our conversation with you!
Tune in as we discuss:
- Understanding the goals of the algorithms
- Addiction as a lens to make sense of social media
- Jenni’s decision to delete her Instagram account
- The parallels between fractured attention and financial scarcity
- Reckoning with combative platforms
- How to protect your well-being if you’re still on social media
⭐️ & RSVP FOR MY BOOK READING IN SAN FRANCISCO ON MARCH 12TH! ⭐️
BOOKS MENTIONED (affiliate links):
- Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media by Amelia Hruby
- The Sustainable Solopreneur by Jenni Gritters
- The Practice of Attention by Cody Cook-Parrott
- Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, MD
- Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
- The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
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