Why are recommendation engines always about consuming more and more?
With attention becoming a precious scarce resource, apps should stop limiting themselves to "you'll like this, add this, and this, and this" suggestions, and instead also give smart suggestions for things like "you don't seem to be enjoying this podcast, remove it" or "this RSS feed content seems crap, stop wasting time on it".

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> attention becoming a precious scarve resouce

Reminds me of a cryptocurrency which tokenises attention. People were paid that token by trading their attention by watching ads. Not sure why they didn't use bitcoin.

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