What it is: a calendar with 30-second slots.
Price: $5 flat, paid once.
What you get: during your slot I think only about you or whatever you specify. No phone, no tabs, no idle Spotify.
What you don’t get: follow-up emails, analytics, or an upsell. When the timer hits 00:30 it’s over.
Call it reverse capitalism. Instead of stealing attention I sell mine at retail.
Link: https://momentarily.example (booking + source).
AMA: performance art, protest, or tiny utility?
unless you are a celebrity or something why in the world would I value you at 300$ an hour.
If I HAD to pay someone a few bucks to listen I would much rather give it to some homeless person who can stretch that money way further than anyone doing _this_
anyway that was my initial reaction, if you want more attention I charge 10 euros per intentional comment
I'm sure if you hire him as a consultant at bulk, you'll get a discount.
You have to remember that taking 30 seconds out of your day is unproportionally expensive cognitively in terms of context switch. So get a bulk deal or enjoy the fun experiment, either by trying it or from the sideline like most of us. ;-)
I wouldn't be struggling to pay my student loans
But at first seeing this, I unironically felt joy at the idea of being able to directly communicate with somebody real on the internet about anything I like. Like... yeah, back in the day.
Then, the reality sinks in and I realise my social skills are so atrophied post-Covid that I don't even know what I'd say. (half-joking.)
And yet I can rattle off to ChatGPT freely about any old thing...
It's a clever art project and makes you think. Hopefully the creator wakes up to a surprise little nest egg of cash out of $5 bills.
It's dystopian, but actually we do that every single day with going to work, with who we choose to use as service or media providers, the cookies we leave behind. Everything is data and our data is being sold by big tech for our attention.
The point of momentarily is to take back control over my own time and say, I get to choose who I give my attention to and for others choose who they choose to spend time with them.
Can't make art without pissing some people off.
I'd like to think the latter is more disruptive.
Momentarily is created as a art piece against how large corporations use your data and sell it on for attention to advertisers. The role of Momentarily is atleast personally a joke, to say F'you to big tech, and I'm taking back control over my own time and what or who I sell my attention to.
Most people who have actually bought know and understand it's a joke, and understand that they don't recieve "feedback" or "advice" They recieve 30 seconds of my time where I just sit and think about them. And I give them raw thoughts I'm having at that time in email form.
That could be a response to something they said, my thoughts on them, or just a fun little shitpost as a joke to lighten their day.
Although it says no refunds allowed, if anyone wants to get a refund they can literally just ask. Life's not that deep, you can make light of a shit situation, and make art.
Peace and Love, Seeds in soil. My attention is mine to give.
You "won" if you saw yourself...
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