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Computer science proved in 1975 that no number of messages can make two minds certain of each other; humans solved that with ceremonies, not mail. AI has just made the reply free — and worthless as evidence that anyone knows. What remains is the room. … readNo Number of Messages
The Zero-Attention Economy is out in a free second edition, with a new Part Four on what absorption leaves for the people who receive the exceptions: fresh horses, two clocks, and why the charge belongs to the person. … readThe Zero-Attention Economy, Second Edition
If a hard decision is counted against a person and not a job, the most valuable thing any agent holds is its model of one person, built mostly outside work and worth something only if it travels. That is why personal AI will win, and why every business needs a bring-your-own-AI policy. … readThe Charge Is Yours
Holding a hard decision until you are fresh is a kindness only when you tire before the question spoils. Every decision runs on two clocks, and the charge it costs is counted against a person, not against the job. … readTwo Clocks
Civilization advances by the work we no longer think about, Whitehead wrote in 1911, and then added that thought is a cavalry charge: limited, decisive, and dependent on fresh horses. AI is absorbing the routine that used to rest them. … readFresh Horses
Attention gathers where reality fails to keep the promise that made the next moment feel settled. … readThe Promise Attention Keeps
Attention changes when an actual event crosses the expectation we were already carrying, not when something is merely new. … readThe Threshold Attention Crosses
Fear and hope ride along in every Reality as the angle attention cannot read. Like velocity, they are carried and unfelt, and they reach you only on a quarter turn: the two sentences you write. … readFear Rides Along. You Feel It on the Turn.
Fear and hope are stories about an unknown future. Separating the force of attention from the direction of a story makes the story available for inspection. … readFear Fits on a Page
Other people’s surprise can become evidence that our own expectation has missed something, but borrowed attention becomes judgment only when we inspect the signal ourselves. … readThe Echo Attention Borrows