Menka Sanghvi

Writer, curator and activist working on attention and society.
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[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

Pointing, twisting, crouching, tiptoeing and turning our heads to see clearly. My latest newsletter explores how simple physical movements help orient our attention. Something that is harder to do when we're on screens. 👀

https://t.co/MbE1XBy18J

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Artists are getting active in the campaign to roll back the phone-based childhood. Here's an amazing 4 minute music video: Fight the Algorithm. Catchy tune, powerful dramatization, from Lea Kalisch:

https://t.co/cgxQqMyfeg

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

Looking forward to answering your questions about this year's Awards on Tue 26 March! (Register to join us or to watch the recording afterwards.)

[Mindfulness Initiative @MindfulNationUK]

The three categories for this year's Innovation in Mindfulness Awards are:

🟣Mindfulness training programmes
🟡Technology meets mindfulness
🔵Creative partnerships

And we've gone global! 🌏So spread the word and if you have questions, join us on Tuesday: https://t.co/gRA5mpQ3yV

[Mindfulness Initiative @MindfulNationUK]

An invitation from @menka: Whether you're working on a new #mindfulness project and want to apply to the Awards, or you want to support others by offering your expertise, resources, or sponsorship, you're welcome to join our #Innovation community!

https://t.co/ThxlkBJYGZ

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

Amid all this horrific news, we need whatever inner nourishment we can get to stay engaged.

Maybe something as simple as noticing the colours around you could help?

https://t.co/8a8H6D7TJ6

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

If an image could smell like cinnamon-spiced hot chocolate with tiny marshmallows...

[Matt Stuart @mattustu]

Haarlem #nothingfromnowhere

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

During the holidays, I often get cynical about all things magical and wonderful. But in my latest Just Looking newsletter, I make a case for the practice of wonder...

In Defence Of Wonder
https://t.co/Xfun1pKwAI

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

Reading this on your phone? Take a brief moment to notice how your fingers use the touchscreen by interrupting the circuit and redirecting the small charge of electricity through your body.

📷 by Joseph Molines

https://t.co/KMytjf6GYR

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

This is a bit like when people listen carefully to us only to figure out how they can change our minds - but worse, much worse.
https://t.co/2uLJN09mQf

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

This is why I love photography - not because it's always beautiful, but because it honours life with attention.

[Joel Meyerowitz @joelmeyerowitz]

5. Abandoned toys on the floor of the daycare center, 2001
6. A Bugler Plays Taps, 2001
7. Fireman searching and sifting for remains inside the North tower, 2001
8. Dusk, welders working where the Marriot Hotel once stood, 2001

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

On resisting tidiness...

[Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 @_JoelAshton]

As we approach the time of year where we instinctively want to cut everything back for the sake of “tidiness,” I implore that you don’t! Our hedgerows in particular are about to come alive with #wildlife! These Ivy flowers are about to provide for our later emerging insects, and our hedgerows are preparing a larder for our autumn birds & mammals. Please people, leave your hedges until February before you cut them back & before birds start to nest 🙏👍💚 Thank you!

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

I find it really insightful when we use AI purposefully (rather than accidentally) as a mirror .... this is a humorous example, but points to how intensely our world is filled with strong stereotypes - for better or for worse.
https://t.co/LqJngudvH9

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

Parents in this town collectively agreed not to give children smartphones until secondary school, in an attempt to create a new social norm. Love this example of culture-shaping from @mindovertech's newsletter.

https://t.co/Whcqb1P1Vz

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

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[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

All hail @PrivateEyeNews

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

Mindful photography walks around London:
https://t.co/HlfuY4QBMp

[Lutra Lutra @reacctionary]

A wet day today and Rorschach has been out paddling in the puddles - what can you see in tonight's image?

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

Here are three humble (science-backed) ways to slow down time. My monthly newsletter went out a few days ago. Would have posted it here earlier, but am - you know - doing things slowly...

Photo: Sia Windig. It's a drone image of her footsteps on a beach.

https://t.co/xHbUKiScgI

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

Another fascinating piece by @rifish

https://t.co/6f2UDebiKN

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

Choosing one's own pace. And how the words we use to describe it make a difference!

https://t.co/iGl1CZlfmC

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

“If we go back to the old distinction where we divide photography into windows and mirrors, I do feel there are now a lot of mirrors, and the windows all tend to show the same thing."

https://t.co/QhrsDPP5SX

[Menka Sanghvi @menka]

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