# Is the economy suffering from the crisis of attention? | Bank Underground - Host: [bankunderground.co.uk](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/bankunderground.co.uk/) - Saved: December 2, 2017 (2017-12-02T21:40:43Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ef137c3007bc/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ef137c3007bc.json ## What Jamie wrote Interesting article theorizing on a possible connection between economic growth and the rise of mobile and social technology. The suggestion is that one of two things is happening: time on social is taking away from productive time or time on social is yielding a distracted population that is less productive. I would suggest both are likely true. Cal Newport [gave a thoughtful summary](http://calnewport.com/blog/2017/11/30/on-the-complicated-economics-of-attention-capital/) of this article as well. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT31: Weekly Thing for December 9, 2017](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/31/), Links 📌 ## Saved the same week - [Microservice Architecture: All the Best Practices You Need to Know | Coding Sans](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7a8cf7b60369/) (codingsans.com, December 1, 2017) - [Oura Ring | Sleep Tracker and Smart Ring with a Heart Rate Monitor](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7df7ace3cde2/) (ouraring.com, December 2, 2017) - [MindNode 5 Screencasts by David Sparks - YouTube](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8eddf9f24ca8/) (youtube.com, December 2, 2017) - [A Holiday Gift List of Crap I Don't Regret](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6eb1b95792f6/) (macdrifter.com, December 2, 2017) - [How We Reorganized Instagram’s Engineering Team While Quadrupling Its Size](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0fcbdf922a15/) (hbr.org, December 2, 2017) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://bankunderground.co.uk/2017/11/24/is-the-economy-suffering-from-the-crisis-of-attention/