Principlev1PR-1055

Reduce monitoring signals to fewer than can saturate…

Reduce monitoring signals to fewer than can saturate attention, even when this means discarding potentially useful metrics.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Working Memory Capacity Limit (working memory limits), Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (attention as finite resource), Attention as Gate to Conscious Perception (attention capacity limits), and Information and attention have an inverse relationship (information-attention inverse). Prescribes deliberate reduction given architectural constraints.

Source Lessons

Monitoring fatigue

Too much monitoring data overwhelms attention and leads to ignoring signals that matter. The solution is not more data — it is fewer, sharper signals routed to the right layer of attention.

Connections

Derived From (4)

AxiomWorking Memory Capacity Limit AxiomDirected Attention as Depletable Resource AxiomAttention as Gate to Conscious Perception AxiomInformation and attention have an inverse relationship

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