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The attention capital principle

Attention capital is creating workflows that optimize the human brain's ability to add value to information. Not just to chase our own tails and send and receive more emails.

The optimal way to deploy our human brains is sequentially.

There are 2 main components to knowledge work: 

  • work execution, which requires more autonomy and is where knowledge workers use their brains and skills
  •  workflow, which is where you need less autonomy because it is the structure and coordination of the work

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