Are our attention spans really getting shorter?

I hear this said a lot.

But I also know people who listen to multi-hour podcasts, read books, binge series, run/bike really long distances, write books, build apps…

Yes, some of those aren’t really the things people are talking about when they say we’re basically goldfish with thumbs. But they’re not irrelevant.

Maybe the explosion of content and choices coupled with the rapid increase in quality and professionalization of many content creators mean our bar for “bad content” is really low.

Maybe instead of having shorter attention spans we have stricter quality filters.