Our attention is undervalued.
Everybody talks about how our time is a limited resource, but our attention is much more subtly stolen away from us. When I worked at Netflix we often talked about winning “moments of truth”. Those little decision points that a person makes that can result in streaming something on Netflix.
I have started looking at the opposite side of this equation. As human beings, we should be aware of what we are thinking about, what decisions we are making, and where our attention is straying towards.
Every website or app is vying for our attention. Every social site’s goal is to keep us scrolling for longer. Keep us clicking and interacting with more and more.
It didn’t used to be this way. Our attention used to largely be ours to command. Getting online used to be an active decision. Turning our attention to the news of the day was an active decision.
Reading a book is still mostly like this. We can read a chapter, and then decide for ourselves if we want to keep going. There are built-in escape hatches in a book.
Scoopy tries to let us have more control in how we spend our attention. It gives us an escape hatch, just like a book. A moment where we can pause and decide if we want to keep going, or if it is time to turn our attention elsewhere.
Scoopy has us decide what sources deserve to be in our scroll, and doesn’t try or even benefit from manipulating us to scroll more or engage further.
I really believe this kind of intentionality pays more dividends than just a less stressful scroll. If you agree, please consider heading to https://scoopy.zone and subscribing to one of our paid plans.
