Our attention is finite, yet we spend it everywhere but where it matters. This is not a moral failure. It is a structural one. Attention economics is the idea that in a world overflowing with information, human attention becomes the scarce resource. Whoever captures it, holds power. Over time, this has reshaped not just markets, but inner lives. What we notice. What we ignore. What we can tolerate. What we can no longer sit with. For a long time, people warned that television would rot our brains. In hindsight, television looks almost generous. A show required you to stay for forty minutes. A film asked for two hours. A detective story invited you to notice details, to remember names, to hold multiple threads in your mind at once. You watched. You followed. You waited. Listening to music meant staying long enough to learn lyrics. Reading meant sitting with confusion until meaning arrived. Writing a poem meant wrestling with language, not skimming it. Even boredom had a purpose—it ...
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” — Peter Drucker It always sounds noble at first. "If I don’t act now, I’ll regret it forever." We’ve all heard it—often from family, mentors, and even the media. But what happens when acting now turns into regret later ? In Kenya today, panic-fueled decision-making is a quiet epidemic. It's in the rushed land investments in remote areas, the glamorous trips we can’t afford, the PhDs that end in bitterness, and marriages that collapse under the weight of poor timing. This isn’t just about bad luck. It’s about a cultural mindset that prizes urgency over wisdom. We need to talk about it. 1. The Panic to Own Land—Anywhere Buying land is a culturally glorified milestone. Land is emotional in Kenya. It's not just property; it's legacy. So when someone offers you a plot “10 minutes from the highway” with flexible installments, your heart leaps. But how many Kenyans have bought ...