CONCEPT
The Gannet's Dive
Jamie's emblem for total attention calibrated to consequence — whole-organism engagement with actual physics, against which screen-based attention can be measured.
The gannet hunts by folding its wings and falling from a hundred feet, entering the water at sixty miles per hour in a maneuver that would kill any creature not specifically evolved for it. Jamie has watched this happen thousands of times from the Bass Rock. The dive becomes, in her work, a diagnostic image: attention that is whole-body, directed at the environment itself rather than a representation, and calibrated by consequences that cannot be simulated. The gannet that misjudges breaks its neck. There is no undo function. Jamie's framework invites a comparison — not a condemnation — with screen-mediated attention, which passes through representations and is shaped by a medium that rewards speed and responsiveness over the patient calibration to reality that the gannet embodies.
In The You On AI Field Guide
The Bass Rock colony — sixty thousand breeding pairs — is Jamie's paradigmatic site for sustained observation. She has described the noise becoming a physical medium, the particular quality of guano-whitened rock under northern light, and the way