a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention¶
Simon, H. A. (1971). a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
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Mechanisms¶
- Attention Budget Audit
- This is the practical form of a long-standing observation: an abundance of information consumes attention, so a wealth of inputs creates a poverty of attention, and the binding constraint quietly becomes what you can afford to attend to.
This sourceThe audit operationalizes attention-as-scarce-resource, which is why its resource frame, not its valuation, is the load-bearing step.
- This is the practical form of a long-standing observation: an abundance of information consumes attention, so a wealth of inputs creates a poverty of attention, and the binding constraint quietly becomes what you can afford to attend to.
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