Attention is scarce, data is abundant

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Andrés Santos Sanz

In the entrepreneurial environment, attention capacity can become a resource as limited as it is valuable. Daily, those who launch and develop projects must face multiple fronts: raising capital, validating the market, cultivating contact networks, and generally dedicating countless hours to innovation and improving their proposals. All of this implies that time is easily diluted by distractions or the exploration of irrelevant information.

However, the real difficulty does not lie in the absence of data, but rather in its overwhelming abundance. From specialized articles and investor forums to social networks and technological newsletters, the flow is constant. Any entrepreneur could spend days reviewing each source but would still risk losing focus on key tasks such as strategy or customer acquisition.

When seeking solutions, it is not enough to add more and more platforms; each new tool carries an adoption and learning cost that can generate frictions, interrupt routines, or even be relegated to oblivion after a brief usage period. The real challenge is to find management mechanisms that seamlessly integrate into daily life, ensuring that information arrives naturally, where the person is already working, without the need to change environments or apps.

This approach seeks to prioritize attention optimization, avoiding saturation with dispensable data and presenting only what adds value. It is a shift in perspective: instead of blaming overabundance, it is about refining the selection and presentation of content. For this, a system capable of understanding the particular needs of each case, discerning between different levels of relevance, and ensuring that notifications or updates are timely, precise, and useful is required.

Ultimately, an intelligent information filtering and delivery strategy can translate into a notable improvement in productivity. It's not just about "making better use of time," but about allowing teams to dedicate their efforts to what truly drives the business: product development, strengthening relationships with clients and allies, and creating competitive advantages that pave their way in increasingly competitive markets.

Thus, those leading new companies or projects can focus on vision, problem-solving, and tactical execution, while a platform — or set of mechanisms — takes care of reducing the media and technological noise that surrounds daily routines. This balance between the quality and relevance of data, coupled with contextualized and frictionless delivery, is what truly makes the difference when time and concentration are resources as scarce as they are decisive.

Key Points:

  1. The amount of information is overwhelming, especially for entrepreneurs with an absolute focus on their company. More information to attend to causes analysis paralysis and increases the difficulty of separating signal from noise.
  2. LLMs unlock the ability to offer personalized, relevant, and up-to-date information.
  3. Information must be provided through tools already integrated into users' habits. Using a proprietary tool would be a barrier to entry for creating a new habit.