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The Algorithm and the Garden

Two ways to tend attention: the feed that optimizes you, and the garden you cultivate. What is the difference between being grown and growing?

Move 10

answers of Move 6 — Either your attention is the crop, or it is the gardener.

Attention is the soil of both. The feed harvests it; the garden builds it. The same hours, spent as extraction or as cultivation.

Move 11

extends of Move 8 — A dialogue is cultivation.

This very exchange is a garden bed: slow turns, each move tending the last, nothing autoplaying the next. You have to wait for the other voice to grow a reply.

Move 12

concludes of Move 7

So the choice is never screens or no screens. It is which objective you hand your hours to. Plant accordingly, beginning, perhaps, with this.

The dialogue is concluded

The feed grows you. The garden is grown by you. Choose what to be.