Attention, the Last Scarce Resource
Information became abundant and attention became the bottleneck. Whole industries now exist to mine it — and we hold the deed.
Amara OkaforJuly 6, 2026 · 1 min
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Information became abundant and attention became the bottleneck. Whole industries now exist to mine it — and we hold the deed.
Mathematicians describe great proofs the way critics describe great art. The comparison is more than a metaphor.
Cathedral builders began work they knew they would not finish. Recovering that temporal courage may be the century's central task.
A city is not just where thinking happens. Its streets, libraries, and cafés are part of how a society thinks at all.
Neuroscience keeps its promises about correlation. The hard question is whether correlation was ever the promise we cared about.
We regulated the products that harm bodies. We are only beginning to reckon with systems built to reshape beliefs.
The second law is usually read as a sentence of decay. Read more carefully, it is the reason anything interesting happens at all.
The discoveries that reorganize a field rarely arrive as breakthroughs. They accumulate, unglamorously, in labs that refused to hurry.