This week we are building March’s Attention Economy Navigator, our guide to what you should be paying more attention to, and what you can probably pay less attention to. And why those stories might not be what you’d assume.
Joining to help build this month’s Attention Economy Navigator in real time are founder of Creator Congress, Rynn Reed and National Press Secretary for the Working Families Party, Ravi Mangla. Together, they co-publish the Substack newsletter, Signal Break, which is all about agitating, disrupting, and challenging the prevailing orthodoxy around how we communicate and charting a new way forward.
You can also watch the panel plot these stories in real time on YouTube, or read the article version on the Convergence website.
Stories we referenced in this episode:
- Dark money groups offered influencers $1500 per post to attack, specifically, progressive candidate Kat Abughazaleh in Illinois 9th District congressional primary.
- Exploring if the mythical moderate Democrat voter really exists. AKA Chuck Schumer’s favorite fictional family of voters, The Baileys.
- Resignation of Director of National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent – making the correct moral move for the wrong reasons.
- The “Creator Wars” which broke out over the highly contested Texas congressional primary race between Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico.
- Data centers are becoming an electoral wedge issue.
- Trump can’t stop talking about taking over Cuba.
- Open AI’s Sam Altman has suggested a model in which all their stolen “intelligence” is sold back to us like a utility.
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Episode Guests
A native Texan, Rynn has spent over a decade organizing and working on campaigns up and down the East Coast. She recently founded Creator Congress, a creator focused organizing project where traditional organizing and collective action meets New Media.
Ravi Mangla is the National Press Secretary for the Working Families Party. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.