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Danica Swanson
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Gift Economics Quote of the Day "I can’t shake fantasizing about attention that has no price, that can’t be bought or sold, but is given freely: a gift. I buy and read books because I want to give the gift of my attention to the attention economy I’m (as a writer) a part of. I’m inspired by Lewis Hyde in The Gift, who says that what distinguishes commodities is that they’re used up, but what distinguishes gifts is that they circulate — the gift is never trapped, consumed, used up, contained or confined. That seems like the best basis for cultural production to thrive." ~ Michael Erard From "A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention"
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I’ve just started reading The Gift, days back, and it’s phenomenal. Life changing.
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Danica Swanson
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Excellent! It's about time for me to re-read it. I remember stumbling upon it for the first time in a university library in the early 2000s, and wishing I'd known about gift economics earlier in life. I'm curious: what made you decide to pick it up?
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Can’t recall the exact moment i decided to get it, but i loved Trickster Makes this World and the way Hyde wrote that, using so much folklore and all that to give historical context on a lot of the ideas he presents.. I think because of Trickster, some recommendation algo might’ve shown me The Gift, but when i saw it was from Hyde, I knew I had to read it. He has a way of putting a lot of the abstract concepts or notions in my mind to these stories and words and it’s been so refreshing to see someone doing that.
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