Scarcity means valuable https://www.benkuhn.net/attention/ As a developer:
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Ask HN: Is Attention Now a Superpower?
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#12The ability to wisely manage one’s own attention has always been powerful. If you read How to Win Friends and Influence People, its core message is to direct your attention with a forgiving curiosity about those you work with. If you want to get better at managing your attention in conversations, the books “Clean Language” and “From Contempt to Curiosity” are good.
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#14I think so, yes. Example: Many people today don’t read books. Therefore they are missing out, big time. Many books contain unique and valuable information/analysis that cannot be obtained elsewhere. So IMHO, people who read books will gain advantages from that activity.
If said information has any staying power, it would continue to propagate which is the original definition of a meme. Saying that it can't be obtained anywhere else implies it's not as important.
Maybe, but if you look at it from the opposite point of view, I think it can be said that those that read books enjoy an advantage over those that do not. Even though the idea could be conveyed outside of a book, the time, discipline and quiet required to read is likely better than most other methods of consumption.