Menka Sanghvi
@menkasanghvi.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary researcher, curator and writer exploring the relationship between attention, tech and society.
📘 Author of "Your Best Digital Life"
👀 Founder @wearejustlooking.org
🤖 Substack: https://menkasanghvi.substack
🏠 Home: menkasanghvi.com
📘 Author of "Your Best Digital Life"
👀 Founder @wearejustlooking.org
🤖 Substack: https://menkasanghvi.substack
🏠 Home: menkasanghvi.com
I'll be leading this workshop with activist, artist and author of Mindful Photography and Everyday Wonder - the amazing Sophie Howarth. If you have time this Sunday, join us!
This Sunday 5 October - join us for an online workshop on attention activism! ✊ In this age of distraction and polarisation, where you choose to place your precious attention matters more than ever.
Meet on Zoom:
5-7pm BST
12-2pm EST.
Book your place: wearejustlooking.org/workshop-not...
Meet on Zoom:
5-7pm BST
12-2pm EST.
Book your place: wearejustlooking.org/workshop-not...
September 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I'll be leading this workshop with activist, artist and author of Mindful Photography and Everyday Wonder - the amazing Sophie Howarth. If you have time this Sunday, join us!
If you're struggling with news overwhelm at the moment, please be kind to yourself. Managing our attention in the digital age isn't easy! The key is gradually replacing autopilot habits with more intentional ones. Check my latest book with Jonathan Garner: "Your Best Digital Life" (Macmillan 2025).
September 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
If you're struggling with news overwhelm at the moment, please be kind to yourself. Managing our attention in the digital age isn't easy! The key is gradually replacing autopilot habits with more intentional ones. Check my latest book with Jonathan Garner: "Your Best Digital Life" (Macmillan 2025).
Reposted by Menka Sanghvi
Reposted by Menka Sanghvi
Congratulations @menkasanghvi.bsky.social & Jonathan Garner on today's UK release of Your Best Digital Life!
Great little curiosity practice here:
The M.O.R.E. Method = Mobilize, Observe, Reflect, Experiment
Great little curiosity practice here:
The M.O.R.E. Method = Mobilize, Observe, Reflect, Experiment
May 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Congratulations @menkasanghvi.bsky.social & Jonathan Garner on today's UK release of Your Best Digital Life!
Great little curiosity practice here:
The M.O.R.E. Method = Mobilize, Observe, Reflect, Experiment
Great little curiosity practice here:
The M.O.R.E. Method = Mobilize, Observe, Reflect, Experiment
I've been reading the new MIT study notes about what happens to our brains when we use ChatGPT to research and write things for us. Here are my thoughts about it…
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Is Cognitive Debt A Real Thing?
The latest research about what's happening in our brains when we outsource thinking to AI assistants.
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June 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I've been reading the new MIT study notes about what happens to our brains when we use ChatGPT to research and write things for us. Here are my thoughts about it…
open.substack.com/pub/menkasan...
open.substack.com/pub/menkasan...
Fascinating how the human mind is wired to spot patterns and especially faces in clouds, traffic lights and everywhere. I believe it has evolutionary origins in keeping us safe (spotting tigers in the bushes etc.) but now I do it just for fun.. and to stop looking down at my phone!
Photography and having a young son who helps point things out I’d otherwise miss, helps for sure. An antidote to mindless distractions.
June 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Fascinating how the human mind is wired to spot patterns and especially faces in clouds, traffic lights and everywhere. I believe it has evolutionary origins in keeping us safe (spotting tigers in the bushes etc.) but now I do it just for fun.. and to stop looking down at my phone!
My conversation about mindful photography, playfulness and attention! It was so much fun working with @sophiehowarth.com and @flakphoto.news on this piece. Hope you enjoy reading it…
Friends, here’s something thoughtful to start your day — Sophie Howarth and Menka Sanghvi on #photography and attention. Enjoy!
www.flakphoto.news/p/notice-wha...
www.flakphoto.news/p/notice-wha...
Notice What You Notice
Sophie Howarth and Menka Sanghvi on photography and attention
www.flakphoto.news
June 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
My conversation about mindful photography, playfulness and attention! It was so much fun working with @sophiehowarth.com and @flakphoto.news on this piece. Hope you enjoy reading it…
A deep dive into curiosity, attention, skies, and what it means to be human! Thanks for inviting me onto your show Lynn. ❤️
Ahhh! @menkasanghvi.bsky.social & I feel our way around noticing as the first step to caring, attention activism & artistry, the essence of parenting, and why looking at the sky first thing in the morning is such a good idea.
lynnborton.com/2025/04/24/j... #attentioneconomy #curiosity #justlooking
lynnborton.com/2025/04/24/j... #attentioneconomy #curiosity #justlooking
Just Looking, with Menka Sanghvi
Menka Sanghvi and I feel our ways around noticing as the first step to caring, taking responsibility for where and how we direct our attention, attention activism and artistry, not accepting default s...
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April 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A deep dive into curiosity, attention, skies, and what it means to be human! Thanks for inviting me onto your show Lynn. ❤️
Once a year, I take off all the keys on my keyboard, rinse them with warm soapy water, scrub the board with a soft bristled baby brush, air dry, and then carefully put everything back together. Yep. What do you do for fun? 😆 #techrituals
March 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Once a year, I take off all the keys on my keyboard, rinse them with warm soapy water, scrub the board with a soft bristled baby brush, air dry, and then carefully put everything back together. Yep. What do you do for fun? 😆 #techrituals
The best (and possibly only) way to leverage tech well is to get curious and experiment! I had the pleasure of speaking at The Leathersellers' Link and Learn event last week exploring the role of AI in the charity sector. So much potential in leveraging AI to amplify impact!
#ai #digitalhabits
#ai #digitalhabits
March 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The best (and possibly only) way to leverage tech well is to get curious and experiment! I had the pleasure of speaking at The Leathersellers' Link and Learn event last week exploring the role of AI in the charity sector. So much potential in leveraging AI to amplify impact!
#ai #digitalhabits
#ai #digitalhabits
On my substack...
menkasanghvi.substack.com/p/does-chatg...
menkasanghvi.substack.com/p/does-chatg...
Does ChatGPT need to learn mindfulness?
Because it turns out chatbots can experience anxiety, too.
menkasanghvi.substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
On my substack...
menkasanghvi.substack.com/p/does-chatg...
menkasanghvi.substack.com/p/does-chatg...
We are in good company! Brilliant to see our book 'Your Best Digital Life' next to these amazing reads by Johann Hari and Cal Newport. Their work sparked critical thinking about digital wellbeing – we're building on it to introduce a new way of treating digital tech as an extension of your mind!
March 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We are in good company! Brilliant to see our book 'Your Best Digital Life' next to these amazing reads by Johann Hari and Cal Newport. Their work sparked critical thinking about digital wellbeing – we're building on it to introduce a new way of treating digital tech as an extension of your mind!
Hello, old friend! A local perennial. These have grown to about 15cm tall. The leaves are divided into three toothed and lobed segments.
March 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Hello, old friend! A local perennial. These have grown to about 15cm tall. The leaves are divided into three toothed and lobed segments.
Just found this book from 1991. The "Over 500,000 copies sold" sticker reminded me that parents worrying about kids spending too much time on screens is nothing new! Back then, there were no on-demand shows or personalization algorithms, yet the struggle was (already) real. That was 33 years ago!
March 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Just found this book from 1991. The "Over 500,000 copies sold" sticker reminded me that parents worrying about kids spending too much time on screens is nothing new! Back then, there were no on-demand shows or personalization algorithms, yet the struggle was (already) real. That was 33 years ago!
