Culture

The traditional asset issuance process is slow, expensive and has a high regulatory bar, restricting what assets can be issued. Attention Assets must operate at Internet speed to keep pace with the global zeitgeist. The combination of permissionless tokens issuance, clever pricing mechanisms like bonding curves, and DEXs practically let anyone... See more

When literally everything becomes television, what disappears is not something so broad as intelligence (although that seems to be going, too) but something harder to put into words, and even harder to prove the value of. It’s something like inwardness. The capacity for solitude, for sustained attention, for meaning that penetrates inward rather... See more

At any given time, you’re either pre–heavy thing or post–heavy thing . You’ve either made something weighty already, or you haven’t. Pre–heavy thing people are still searching, experimenting, iterating. Post–heavy thing people have crossed the threshold. They’ve made something of substance—something that commands respect, inspires others, and... See more

It’s far more convenient to worry about the sex life of some abstract other. But it is not, despite their claims, a matter of jealousy. It is a matter of evasion. It isn’t that Gen Z has a sex problem, it’s that we all do — whether we want to make it about loneliness or politics or whatever else is more digestible than making it about sex itself.... See more

The crux of this shift is intuitive: wealth and assets were previously concentrated among households with the highest income, and thus the strongest ability to save money and buy new assets. Today, that wealth is concentrated among households who have held assets the longest, suggesting the dominant share of value comes from owning previously... See more

The official poverty line for a family of four in 2024 is $31,200. The median household income is roughly $80,000. We have been told, implicitly, that a family earning $80,000 is doing fine—safely above poverty, solidly middle class, perhaps comfortable.

But if Orshansky’s crisis threshold were calculated today using her own methodology, that... See more

When people make unconventional decisions, it often feels like they are measured to another standard than those who follow the default script. If you do the normal thing and it fails you, then it isn’t your fault; it’s the system. But if you do an unconventional thing, even small, normal setbacks are read as proof of your foolishness. When a normal... See more

We believe that, with proper construction, Attention Assets could transcend to a bonafide asset class. To help accelerate this idea, this essay proposes the idea of Attention Oracles, a new oracle construction that could enable Attention Perps—novel instruments for traders to go long or short the attention of cultural fixtures.

In short, Attention... See more