Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.


Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London (ed. Penguin, 2015) - ISBN: 9780698185036


Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure ...

Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure ...

Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure ...

Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure ...