Attensity Manifesto provides a list of "pantheon-muses of the attentive spirit": "Saint Francis, Buddhaghosa, Annea Lockwood [!], Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch"
and "more contemporary heralds of the power of attention" : "Natasha Schüll, Nicholas Carr, Maggie Jackson, Yves Citton, Jonathan Crary, Shoshana Zuboff, Chris Hayes"
I know some of these people, but not others