Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely

We're now living in a system where attention dynamics are the operating system for resource allocation, political decisions, and identity formation.

His biggest worry, though, is that we still mostly fail to acknowledge that we live in a roaring attention economy. In other words, we tend to ignore his favorite maxim, from the writer Howard Rheingold: “Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.”