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  1. Changed to leankeys. Samsung keyboard's symbols did not change when the font size was adjusted.
    Layout will take time to adjust to, especially the symbol's placements. #learningcurve #keyboard #layout #accessibility #leankeys

  2. 📍 Post 3/6: Branding as a Signature 🪶

    Branding isn't just a logo; it’s a signature. For an Indigenous creative, it’s about putting your "thumbprint" on the digital world.

    📝 Studio Note: Part of my #LearningCurve series—exploring how we track and credit digital assets in an interconnected web. Moving away from "Big Tech" means reclaiming how our work is identified. 🛠️

    🎨 Creative Studio: Social Persona Studio
    📸: Curated via Rawpixel

    #IndigenousIdentity #Branding #DigitalSovereignty

  3. “Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are”*…

    A test subject has his oxygen consumption measured while using Walter R. Miles’ Pursuitmeter, as pictured in the inventor’s 1921 article for the Journal of Experimental PsychologySource.

    Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these devices for evaluating aviators, finding a pre-history of the laboratory research that has relentlessly worked to slice and dice the attentional powers of human beings…

    We worry about our attention these days — nearly all of us. There is something. . . wrong. We cannot manage to do what we want to do with our eyes and minds — not for long, anyway. We keep coming back to the machines, to the screens, to the notifications, to the blinking cursor and the frictionless swipe that renews the feed.

    An ethnographer from Mars, moving among us (would we even notice?), might have trouble understanding our complaint: “Trouble with their attention? They stare at small slabs of versicolor glass all day! Their attentive powers are. . . sublime!”

    And that misunderstanding rather sharpens the point: we don’t have any problem at all with the forms of attention that involve remaining engaged with, and responsive to, machines. We are amazing at the click and tap of durational vigilance to this or that stimulus, presented at the business end of a complex device. Our uncanny and immersive cybernetic attention is a defining characteristic of the age. Our human attention — our ability to be with ourselves and with others, our ability to receive the world with our minds and senses, our ability to daydream, read a book uninterrupted, or watch a sunset — well, many of us are finding it increasingly difficult to remember what that might even mean.

    This isn’t really an accident. Over the last century or so, a series of elaborate programs of laboratory research have worked to slice and dice the attentional powers of human beings. Their aim? To understand the operational capacities of those who would be asked to shoot down airplanes, monitor radar screens, and otherwise sit at the controls of large and expensive machines. Seated in front of countless instruments, experimental subjects were asked to listen and look, to track and trigger. Psychologists stood by with stopwatches, quantifying our cybernetic capacities, and seeking ways to extend them. For those of us who have come of age in the fluorescence of the “attention economy”, it is interesting to look back and try to catch glimpses of the way that the movement of human eyeballs came under precise scrutiny, the way that machine vigilance became a field of study. We know now that the mechanomorphic attention dissected in those laboratories is the machine attention that is relentlessly priced in our online lives — to deleterious effects.

    You could say that this process began with the fascinating and now mostly forgotten tool known as the “pursuit test”. Part steampunk videogame, part laboratory snuff-flick, the pursuit test staged and restaged the integration of man and machine across the first decades of the twentieth century…

    Fascinating– and timely: “Cybernetic Attention– All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch,” from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social. Eminently worth reading in full.

    * Jose Ortega y Gasset

    ###

    As we untangle engagement, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to a man whose work influenced the endeavors described in the piece featured above, Hermann Ebbinghaus; he was born on this date in 1850. A psychologist, he pioneered the experimental study of memory and discovered the learning curve, the forgetting curve, and the spacing effect.

    source

    #attention #attentionEconomy #culture #education #forgettingCurve #HermannEbbinghaus #history #learning #learningCurve #memory #performance #Psychology #Science #spacingEffect #Technology
  4. “Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are”*…

    A test subject has his oxygen consumption measured while using Walter R. Miles’ Pursuitmeter, as pictured in the inventor’s 1921 article for the Journal of Experimental PsychologySource.

    Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these devices for evaluating aviators, finding a pre-history of the laboratory research that has relentlessly worked to slice and dice the attentional powers of human beings…

    We worry about our attention these days — nearly all of us. There is something. . . wrong. We cannot manage to do what we want to do with our eyes and minds — not for long, anyway. We keep coming back to the machines, to the screens, to the notifications, to the blinking cursor and the frictionless swipe that renews the feed.

    An ethnographer from Mars, moving among us (would we even notice?), might have trouble understanding our complaint: “Trouble with their attention? They stare at small slabs of versicolor glass all day! Their attentive powers are. . . sublime!”

    And that misunderstanding rather sharpens the point: we don’t have any problem at all with the forms of attention that involve remaining engaged with, and responsive to, machines. We are amazing at the click and tap of durational vigilance to this or that stimulus, presented at the business end of a complex device. Our uncanny and immersive cybernetic attention is a defining characteristic of the age. Our human attention — our ability to be with ourselves and with others, our ability to receive the world with our minds and senses, our ability to daydream, read a book uninterrupted, or watch a sunset — well, many of us are finding it increasingly difficult to remember what that might even mean.

    This isn’t really an accident. Over the last century or so, a series of elaborate programs of laboratory research have worked to slice and dice the attentional powers of human beings. Their aim? To understand the operational capacities of those who would be asked to shoot down airplanes, monitor radar screens, and otherwise sit at the controls of large and expensive machines. Seated in front of countless instruments, experimental subjects were asked to listen and look, to track and trigger. Psychologists stood by with stopwatches, quantifying our cybernetic capacities, and seeking ways to extend them. For those of us who have come of age in the fluorescence of the “attention economy”, it is interesting to look back and try to catch glimpses of the way that the movement of human eyeballs came under precise scrutiny, the way that machine vigilance became a field of study. We know now that the mechanomorphic attention dissected in those laboratories is the machine attention that is relentlessly priced in our online lives — to deleterious effects.

    You could say that this process began with the fascinating and now mostly forgotten tool known as the “pursuit test”. Part steampunk videogame, part laboratory snuff-flick, the pursuit test staged and restaged the integration of man and machine across the first decades of the twentieth century…

    Fascinating– and timely: “Cybernetic Attention– All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch,” from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social. Eminently worth reading in full.

    * Jose Ortega y Gasset

    ###

    As we untangle engagement, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to a man whose work influenced the endeavors described in the piece featured above, Hermann Ebbinghaus; he was born on this date in 1850. A psychologist, he pioneered the experimental study of memory and discovered the learning curve, the forgetting curve, and the spacing effect.

    source

    #attention #attentionEconomy #culture #education #forgettingCurve #HermannEbbinghaus #history #learning #learningCurve #memory #performance #Psychology #Science #spacingEffect #Technology
  5. “Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are”*…

    A test subject has his oxygen consumption measured while using Walter R. Miles’ Pursuitmeter, as pictured in the inventor’s 1921 article for the Journal of Experimental PsychologySource.

    Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these devices for evaluating aviators, finding a pre-history of the laboratory research that has relentlessly worked to slice and dice the attentional powers of human beings…

    We worry about our attention these days — nearly all of us. There is something. . . wrong. We cannot manage to do what we want to do with our eyes and minds — not for long, anyway. We keep coming back to the machines, to the screens, to the notifications, to the blinking cursor and the frictionless swipe that renews the feed.

    An ethnographer from Mars, moving among us (would we even notice?), might have trouble understanding our complaint: “Trouble with their attention? They stare at small slabs of versicolor glass all day! Their attentive powers are. . . sublime!”

    And that misunderstanding rather sharpens the point: we don’t have any problem at all with the forms of attention that involve remaining engaged with, and responsive to, machines. We are amazing at the click and tap of durational vigilance to this or that stimulus, presented at the business end of a complex device. Our uncanny and immersive cybernetic attention is a defining characteristic of the age. Our human attention — our ability to be with ourselves and with others, our ability to receive the world with our minds and senses, our ability to daydream, read a book uninterrupted, or watch a sunset — well, many of us are finding it increasingly difficult to remember what that might even mean.

    This isn’t really an accident. Over the last century or so, a series of elaborate programs of laboratory research have worked to slice and dice the attentional powers of human beings. Their aim? To understand the operational capacities of those who would be asked to shoot down airplanes, monitor radar screens, and otherwise sit at the controls of large and expensive machines. Seated in front of countless instruments, experimental subjects were asked to listen and look, to track and trigger. Psychologists stood by with stopwatches, quantifying our cybernetic capacities, and seeking ways to extend them. For those of us who have come of age in the fluorescence of the “attention economy”, it is interesting to look back and try to catch glimpses of the way that the movement of human eyeballs came under precise scrutiny, the way that machine vigilance became a field of study. We know now that the mechanomorphic attention dissected in those laboratories is the machine attention that is relentlessly priced in our online lives — to deleterious effects.

    You could say that this process began with the fascinating and now mostly forgotten tool known as the “pursuit test”. Part steampunk videogame, part laboratory snuff-flick, the pursuit test staged and restaged the integration of man and machine across the first decades of the twentieth century…

    Fascinating– and timely: “Cybernetic Attention– All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch,” from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social. Eminently worth reading in full.

    * Jose Ortega y Gasset

    ###

    As we untangle engagement, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to a man whose work influenced the endeavors described in the piece featured above, Hermann Ebbinghaus; he was born on this date in 1850. A psychologist, he pioneered the experimental study of memory and discovered the learning curve, the forgetting curve, and the spacing effect.

    source

    #attention #attentionEconomy #culture #education #forgettingCurve #HermannEbbinghaus #history #learning #learningCurve #memory #performance #Psychology #Science #spacingEffect #Technology
  6. “Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are”*…

    A test subject has his oxygen consumption measured while using Walter R. Miles’ Pursuitmeter, as pictured in the inventor’s 1921 article for the Journal of Experimental PsychologySource.

    Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these devices for evaluating aviators, finding a pre-history of the laboratory research that has relentlessly worked to slice and dice the attentional powers of human beings…

    We worry about our attention these days — nearly all of us. There is something. . . wrong. We cannot manage to do what we want to do with our eyes and minds — not for long, anyway. We keep coming back to the machines, to the screens, to the notifications, to the blinking cursor and the frictionless swipe that renews the feed.

    An ethnographer from Mars, moving among us (would we even notice?), might have trouble understanding our complaint: “Trouble with their attention? They stare at small slabs of versicolor glass all day! Their attentive powers are. . . sublime!”

    And that misunderstanding rather sharpens the point: we don’t have any problem at all with the forms of attention that involve remaining engaged with, and responsive to, machines. We are amazing at the click and tap of durational vigilance to this or that stimulus, presented at the business end of a complex device. Our uncanny and immersive cybernetic attention is a defining characteristic of the age. Our human attention — our ability to be with ourselves and with others, our ability to receive the world with our minds and senses, our ability to daydream, read a book uninterrupted, or watch a sunset — well, many of us are finding it increasingly difficult to remember what that might even mean.

    This isn’t really an accident. Over the last century or so, a series of elaborate programs of laboratory research have worked to slice and dice the attentional powers of human beings. Their aim? To understand the operational capacities of those who would be asked to shoot down airplanes, monitor radar screens, and otherwise sit at the controls of large and expensive machines. Seated in front of countless instruments, experimental subjects were asked to listen and look, to track and trigger. Psychologists stood by with stopwatches, quantifying our cybernetic capacities, and seeking ways to extend them. For those of us who have come of age in the fluorescence of the “attention economy”, it is interesting to look back and try to catch glimpses of the way that the movement of human eyeballs came under precise scrutiny, the way that machine vigilance became a field of study. We know now that the mechanomorphic attention dissected in those laboratories is the machine attention that is relentlessly priced in our online lives — to deleterious effects.

    You could say that this process began with the fascinating and now mostly forgotten tool known as the “pursuit test”. Part steampunk videogame, part laboratory snuff-flick, the pursuit test staged and restaged the integration of man and machine across the first decades of the twentieth century…

    Fascinating– and timely: “Cybernetic Attention– All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch,” from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social. Eminently worth reading in full.

    * Jose Ortega y Gasset

    ###

    As we untangle engagement, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to a man whose work influenced the endeavors described in the piece featured above, Hermann Ebbinghaus; he was born on this date in 1850. A psychologist, he pioneered the experimental study of memory and discovered the learning curve, the forgetting curve, and the spacing effect.

    source

    #attention #attentionEconomy #culture #education #forgettingCurve #HermannEbbinghaus #history #learning #learningCurve #memory #performance #Psychology #Science #spacingEffect #Technology
  7. “Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are”*…

    A test subject has his oxygen consumption measured while using Walter R. Miles’ Pursuitmeter, as pictured in the inventor’s 1921 article for the Journal of Experimental PsychologySource.

    Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these devices for evaluating aviators, finding a pre-history of the laboratory research that has relentlessly worked to slice and dice the attentional powers of human beings…

    We worry about our attention these days — nearly all of us. There is something. . . wrong. We cannot manage to do what we want to do with our eyes and minds — not for long, anyway. We keep coming back to the machines, to the screens, to the notifications, to the blinking cursor and the frictionless swipe that renews the feed.

    An ethnographer from Mars, moving among us (would we even notice?), might have trouble understanding our complaint: “Trouble with their attention? They stare at small slabs of versicolor glass all day! Their attentive powers are. . . sublime!”

    And that misunderstanding rather sharpens the point: we don’t have any problem at all with the forms of attention that involve remaining engaged with, and responsive to, machines. We are amazing at the click and tap of durational vigilance to this or that stimulus, presented at the business end of a complex device. Our uncanny and immersive cybernetic attention is a defining characteristic of the age. Our human attention — our ability to be with ourselves and with others, our ability to receive the world with our minds and senses, our ability to daydream, read a book uninterrupted, or watch a sunset — well, many of us are finding it increasingly difficult to remember what that might even mean.

    This isn’t really an accident. Over the last century or so, a series of elaborate programs of laboratory research have worked to slice and dice the attentional powers of human beings. Their aim? To understand the operational capacities of those who would be asked to shoot down airplanes, monitor radar screens, and otherwise sit at the controls of large and expensive machines. Seated in front of countless instruments, experimental subjects were asked to listen and look, to track and trigger. Psychologists stood by with stopwatches, quantifying our cybernetic capacities, and seeking ways to extend them. For those of us who have come of age in the fluorescence of the “attention economy”, it is interesting to look back and try to catch glimpses of the way that the movement of human eyeballs came under precise scrutiny, the way that machine vigilance became a field of study. We know now that the mechanomorphic attention dissected in those laboratories is the machine attention that is relentlessly priced in our online lives — to deleterious effects.

    You could say that this process began with the fascinating and now mostly forgotten tool known as the “pursuit test”. Part steampunk videogame, part laboratory snuff-flick, the pursuit test staged and restaged the integration of man and machine across the first decades of the twentieth century…

    Fascinating– and timely: “Cybernetic Attention– All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch,” from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social. Eminently worth reading in full.

    * Jose Ortega y Gasset

    ###

    As we untangle engagement, we might send thoughtful birthday greetings to a man whose work influenced the endeavors described in the piece featured above, Hermann Ebbinghaus; he was born on this date in 1850. A psychologist, he pioneered the experimental study of memory and discovered the learning curve, the forgetting curve, and the spacing effect.

    source

    #attention #attentionEconomy #culture #education #forgettingCurve #HermannEbbinghaus #history #learning #learningCurve #memory #performance #Psychology #Science #spacingEffect #Technology
  8. Note to self: Never refill your Zippo whilst sitting on the sofa. Disaster averted, but could've been a bit of a disaster. #learningcurve Sofa scorched. Bloody hell!

  9. Note to self: Never refill your Zippo whilst sitting on the sofa. Disaster averted, but could've been a bit of a disaster. #learningcurve Sofa scorched. Bloody hell!

  10. Note to self: Never refill your Zippo whilst sitting on the sofa. Disaster averted, but could've been a bit of a disaster. #learningcurve Sofa scorched. Bloody hell!

  11. Note to self: Never refill your Zippo whilst sitting on the sofa. Disaster averted, but could've been a bit of a disaster. #learningcurve Sofa scorched. Bloody hell!

  12. "Green hydrogen is too expensive"

    Similar comments were made back during the dawn of horseless carriages...it took a while, but IMO the internal combustion engine won.

    Similar learning curve cost reductions ↙️ will continue reducing costs for green #hydrogen, just as the #learningcurve has for #PV↘️
    #H2 #GreenHydrogen

  13. "Green hydrogen is too expensive"

    Similar comments were made back during the dawn of horseless carriages...it took a while, but IMO the internal combustion engine won.

    Similar learning curve cost reductions ↙️ will continue reducing costs for green #hydrogen, just as the #learningcurve has for #PV↘️
    #H2 #GreenHydrogen

  14. "Green hydrogen is too expensive"

    Similar comments were made back during the dawn of horseless carriages...it took a while, but IMO the internal combustion engine won.

    Similar learning curve cost reductions ↙️ will continue reducing costs for green #hydrogen, just as the #learningcurve has for #PV↘️
    #H2 #GreenHydrogen

  15. "Green hydrogen is too expensive"

    Similar comments were made back during the dawn of horseless carriages...it took a while, but IMO the internal combustion engine won.

    Similar learning curve cost reductions ↙️ will continue reducing costs for green #hydrogen, just as the #learningcurve has for #PV↘️
    #H2 #GreenHydrogen

  16. Anxious Perfectionism 3/10
    Perfectionists often miss opportunities for innovation because they focus so intensely on eliminating mistakes. Imperfection isn't a flaw—it’s a path to resilience. 🌱
#InnovationMindset #ResilienceBuilding #LearningCurve #EmberhartJourney

  17. Today, students startet working on their term project (we're in week 6 of 14). They create a learning mate based on a given structure. So, basically they need to come up with a good system prompt to make the mate do what they expect.

    After 10 minutes: „Wait, we only need to input the prompt here? That’s all?“

    An hour later: „D'oh, it acts strange! We tried this and that and whatnot, and it still isn’t what we need. Can we have another week?“

    #ToldYouSo #LearningCurve

  18. Today, students startet working on their term project (we're in week 6 of 14). They create a learning mate based on a given structure. So, basically they need to come up with a good system prompt to make the mate do what they expect.

    After 10 minutes: „Wait, we only need to input the prompt here? That’s all?“

    An hour later: „D'oh, it acts strange! We tried this and that and whatnot, and it still isn’t what we need. Can we have another week?“

    #ToldYouSo #LearningCurve

  19. Today, students startet working on their term project (we're in week 6 of 14). They create a learning mate based on a given structure. So, basically they need to come up with a good system prompt to make the mate do what they expect.

    After 10 minutes: „Wait, we only need to input the prompt here? That’s all?“

    An hour later: „D'oh, it acts strange! We tried this and that and whatnot, and it still isn’t what we need. Can we have another week?“

    #ToldYouSo #LearningCurve

  20. Today, students startet working on their term project (we're in week 6 of 14). They create a learning mate based on a given structure. So, basically they need to come up with a good system prompt to make the mate do what they expect.

    After 10 minutes: „Wait, we only need to input the prompt here? That’s all?“

    An hour later: „D'oh, it acts strange! We tried this and that and whatnot, and it still isn’t what we need. Can we have another week?“

    #ToldYouSo #LearningCurve