[Earthworm] 6-6-2026 - Session 2 (focus: matt webb hci)
This follows the links accumulated from the initial discussion around information overload and attention fragmentation.
eat → digest → enrich → output
Matt Webb hci continuous partial attention
This becomes a pile of links adjacent to the CPA concept. Unrelated finds: an interesting concept of "hyper-converged infrastructure" and "braggoscope"
One Sentence:
Here's a guy I've never heard of with his finger on the pulse of some neat tech.
Reflection:
Worth exploring but I probably wont go past this post for the time being. He has neat ideas and touchstones on neuroscience and wearables, more in the hardware world, but also a current project about Universal Ambient Intelligence. Not much to reflect on there currently, this is a fractal split only.
See Also: (distraction) https://dinocloud.net/category/hyper-converged-infrastructure/
Blog: https://interconnected.org/
Book: https://mindhacks.com/book/ (2004)
- 'hack' in this case seems to be trendy word of the day, and is just chapters going in depth of how the brain and its sensors work together through lenses of the time (scanners etc).
Links:
(distraction)Mind Hacking: self help book
(distraction)Human Operator (github): exoskeleton hackathon product
https://humanclarityinstitute.com/continuous-partial-attention
One Sentence:
Short diagnostic article, adds anticipation as a motivation driver of CPA
Reflection:
Anticipation seems to be a core of everything. Possibly just me and mine, but as a component of my curiosity for sure. I want that novelty feedback and hunger for something new and novel. The curse is saturation of new, where novel is just new colors or shapes--nothing actually quantitatively moving the needle.
CPA treatment seems to then be harsher on discovery criteria, not digesting and enriching slop--rather sting anything that clickbaits and dodge the predatory sinks. How to do this for professional life?
See Also: Berridge's wanting vs. liking
Notes:
- Persistent middle state between full rest and deep focus.
- Lots of ways CPA is encouraged in modern life by tech.
- Maintained by anticipation.
- Attention prior described by focus and rest as a range or bucket set