physics
Stefan-Boltzmann Law
Every surface radiates energy proportional to the fourth power of its temperature—and so do you, broadcasting your attention across the digital void.
$ cat /tag/attention-economy/
physics
Convection
Heat rises, carrying everything with it—including your data, your attention, and the invisible currents that shape what you see.
physics
Osmosis
How your attention moves through membranes you never agreed to cross, following gradients you didn't create.
physics
Brownian Motion
You think you're choosing where to click, but maybe you're just a particle suspended in someone else's fluid.
thermodynamics
Maxwell's Demon
In 1867, James Clerk Maxwell imagined a demon that could violate the second law of thermodynamics—today, that demon sorts your timeline.
thermodynamics
Spontaneous Process
Like entropy flowing toward disorder, your attention disperses across infinite feeds without anyone pushing—thermodynamics predicted you'd scroll.
thermodynamics
Isochoric Process
When the container stays the same size but the pressure keeps building—a thermodynamic meditation on being trapped in your feed.
thermodynamics
Isothermal Process
Your attention stays constant while the system compresses around you, extracting work from the equilibrium you mistake for freedom.
thermodynamics
Adiabatic Process
In thermodynamics, no heat crosses the boundary—in your digital life, no attention escapes the system.
thermodynamics
Heat Pump
You're not generating content—you're being mined for thermal energy in a system designed to extract more than it returns.