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The Attention Recession

When content supply becomes effectively limitless, human attention becomes the scarce resource. The strategy shifts from producing more to mattering more.

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Publish Date2026-09-18
Updated Date2026-09-18
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When content supply becomes effectively limitless, human attention becomes the scarce resource. The strategy shifts from producing more to mattering more.

This is part of the formal Jimisms: Ideas for What Comes Next series: short phrases designed to give a useful name to a larger business shift.

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Naming the pattern makes it easier to discuss the strategic issue behind it, identify where the risk is building, and decide what should change.

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