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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
Principlev1PR-2099

Allocate team attention explicitly across categories…

Allocate team attention explicitly across categories (committed priorities, responsive buffer, exploration) and make this budget visible to stakeholders to prevent reactive work from consuming all capacity.

Why This Is a Principle

This principle derives from information consuming attention (Information and attention have an inverse relationship) and attention being finite and requiring allocation (Attention is a finite cognitive resource that must…). It prescribes budgeting mechanisms based on the foundational constraint that unallocated attention defaults to whoever is loudest rather than what is most important.