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Attention

An annotated collection of 2 books & papers on attention, spanning 1953 to 2022. Featuring works by Ray Bradbury, Shuo Yang et al. — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury, 1953

Bradbury's novel is not primarily about censorship but about a society that chose comfort over complexity — the firemen arrived after people stopped reading voluntarily. For product directors, this distinction is critica…

The Science of YouTube

Shuo Yang et al., 2022 · PMC (National Library of Medicine)

A scientific paper examining how YouTube's recommendation system shapes content consumption — the mechanics by which the platform produces the watch patterns it produces. The piece is empirical and technical, which is it…