Subscribe to "Good Reading" Quoted “In 1971 the social scientist Herbert Simon anticipated the attention economy when he wrote that in an information-rich world, the most scarce resource is the one that information itself consumes: attention. ‘A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently.’” (Source: “All I Ever Wanted Was a One-Trick Pony”) Facts and Figures In 1996, 59% of SEC filers used non-GAAP figures; in 2017,