Observed arrival · 2026-09-21
The Human Ledger: measuring the conditions behind attention
A working disclosure standard for the attention industries, focused on how creative work gets made rather than whether it is good.
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- People designing, auditing, or debating attention-driven creative work
- Worth noticing
- Its five principles include floors rather than targets and a rule to count what organizations export.
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The Human Ledger frames itself as a working specification rather than a finished doctrine. Its proposed approach separates conditions of production from judgments about creative quality, then applies five principles to attention-driven industries, including a prohibition on treating floors as targets. The homepage connects the argument to engagement metrics, AI-generated content, and exported harms, while acknowledging four arguments it cannot finish alone. The project is openly readable and marked CC BY 4.0.
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