Note: This was originally written on the 5th of February, 2017.)
What makes something worth our attention? A lot of money is invested in answering this question, in all of its various guises… a lot of money. As such the assumption is that the question has value and whilst that is likely true the fact is that it is much more interesting to consider a different, albeit similar question: what makes something interesting?
As is often the case, the quality of interesting being subjective makes it difficult to explore and therefore less popular in our world of interconnected musing and opining; there is no doubt about it, we vote with our eyeballs and the numbers on vague notions such as interesting are not good. Instead, let’s have a list of The 7 Most Fascinating Things For 2017!
And that’s okay. I mean, who has the time, right? Well, the fact is that the modern world of internet-centred living is simply too large for anybody to keep on top of; the idea of being up to date in the year 2017 is altogether ridiculous. Instead, the gems of the internet can be found if we instead choose to focus on whatever thing we care about in the moment and invest time in that above all others.
This isn’t easy and never has been, however, now in the age of data perhaps we can find it that much easier to see both approaches to living and thus gaining the perspective that is crucial to discovering exactly what it is that we care about… what it is that we find interesting.
