In a distracted age, focus is power. And having an inability to focus is giving away power," says Chris Hayes. His new book “The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource” is out now.

Chris Hayes is in the attention business, and it’s in trouble. “Public discourse is a now a war of all against all for attention,” the MSNBC host writes in The Sirens’ Call, which Penguin will publish on Tuesday.

I was looking for self-help advice in Chris Hayes’ “The Sirens' Call,” an examination of the system widely monopolizing our time and eroding our focus: the attention economy. In recent years, my attention has felt continually besieged by a barrage of information,