the.com/attention economy
the marketplace where your eyeballs are the product and boredom is the enemy of profit.
means an economic system where human attention is the scarce resource companies compete to capture, hold, and sell to advertisers.
from coined by psychologist and economist herbert simon in 1971, who noted that a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention — the internet just built an entire industry on that insight.
simon's insightpredicted this decades before smartphones existed
the productyou, packaged and sold to advertisers
key metricengagement, not truth or value
scarce resourceattention, not information, is the bottleneck