Technology

Attention Is the Resource

A pessimistic note on the only finite thing you actually own.

By Editorial · May 31, 2026 · 4 min readMembers

You have, generously, about seventy years of waking attention. Almost every product you use is engineered to take some of it.

This is not a metaphor. It is a literal market in which your seconds are the commodity, and you are not the seller. The seller is the platform; you are the inventory.

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