Archive - The Perpetual Beginner

Attention is not a resource

How the “attention economy” framing takes us away from our most human qualities and experience

Feb 20 •

Dan Nixon

7

September 2024

Learning from all the “noticing beasts”

What can we learn from simply noticing – and being noticed by – the natural world?

Sep 19, 2024 •

Dan Nixon

5

4

February 2024

On learning to notice thoughts (without serving them tea)

We each have 60,000 thoughts per day. What should we do with them?

Feb 24, 2024 •

Dan Nixon

5

1

October 2023

Coming back to presence

On being frazzled, Orwell, and the fascinating cry of wild geese

Oct 22, 2023 •

Dan Nixon

16

8

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