Alchemized Principles of Power

Attention Economy

The market in which your focus, not your money, is the product being bought and sold.

Platforms are not competing for your agreement. They are competing for your minutes, because minutes convert to revenue. Once you accept that your attention is inventory someone else is monetizing, protecting it stops feeling like discipline and starts feeling like ownership.

Also called: engagement economy

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