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Attention Governance

A practical system for protecting focus in high-noise environments.

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Attention is your operating budget for meaning and output.

Without governance, your attention gets allocated by urgency theater, not by values.

Use a weekly input audit: what you read, who you listen to, what you repeatedly open when anxious.

Delete at least one high-noise input per week. Add one high-signal input with explicit purpose.