margins of a day
Notes on attention, analog life and everyday rituals.
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Seven Small Margins
Seven quiet invitations to step away from the screen and leave a little more room around the ordinary parts of the day.
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I keep my phone outside the bedroom
Reading in bed with my phone outside the bedroom: the pull of it, and the worry that I’m missing a notification or something going on.
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Information is no longer the scarce resource. Attention is.
Generative AI makes information endless. Our days stay the same length. On Herbert Simon, the attention economy and learning to refuse.
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Doing Nothing Without Making It a Practice
I sat down by the window to do nothing, and within a minute it had become a project. On idleness, and rest that doesn’t have to prove its worth.
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In defence of an unoccupied mind
I left the headphones at home for the dog’s morning walk. On boredom, a wandering mind and leaving some of the day unclaimed.
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The few minutes when the day is still becoming
Early light on a dog walk, before the day has decided what it is. On noticing change in ordinary mornings, without turning it into a routine.
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A little more room around the day
Most days do not need to contain more. They need a little more room around what is already there.
