The White House earlier this month directed the Pentagon and NASA to gather details on billions of dollars in SpaceX contracts following the public blowout between Trump and Musk. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/14/companies/musk-trump-spacex-contracts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #us #spacex #elonmusk #donaldtrump

Nippon Steel on Saturday touted a "historic partnership" with U.S. Steel after President Donald Trump approved a multibillion-dollar merger — but the Japanese giant faces numerous headwinds going forward. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/14/companies/nippon-steel-merger-challenges/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #ussteel #steelmakers #nipponsteel #usjapanrelations #donaldtrump #mergers #acquisitions

U.S. President Donald Trump has approved the partnership between United States Steel and Japan's Nippon Steel, the companies said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/14/companies/nippon-steel-us-steel-trump-approves/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #nipponsteel #ussteel #us #usjapanrelations #mergers #acquisitions #donaldtrump #companies

Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda’s reelection garnered almost 97% of voted shares during the carmaker’s annual meeting, marking a comeback from the record low he saw after a series of regulatory scandals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/13/companies/toyota-reelection/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #akiotoyoda #toyota #carmakers

Lawson has evolved into a major convenience store chain since opening its first store in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, in June 1975. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/13/companies/lawson-fifty-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #lawson #conveniencestores

With public perception of Boeing still shaky after three high-profile accidents involving its planes in recent years, the planemaker returns to crisis mode following a deadly crash in India involving its 787 Dreamliner. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/13/companies/india-crash-test-boeing-leadership/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #boeing #airindia #india #airaccidents #uk #aviation #airlines #ahmedabad #gujarat

Sumitomo Realty, the Japanese developer facing pressure from Elliott Investment Management to boost its value, is seeking to sell a group of office properties in Tokyo for at least ¥100 billion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/12/companies/sumitomo-realty-sale-office/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #sumitomorealtydevelopment #realestate #elliottinvestmentmanagement

Taiwan's TSMC and Tokyo University are opening a chip lab on the university's main campus in Tokyo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/12/companies/todai-tsmc-lab/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #taiwan #tsmc #chipmakers #ai #kumamoto #manufacturing #tech #taiwanjapanrelations #universityoftokyo

Toyota Motor’s chairman has kept his seat on the carmaker’s board at its annual meeting, where talk of selfies and sumo wrestlers overshadowed Akio Toyoda’s role in a contentious buyout of a group company. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/12/companies/toyota-general-shareholders-meeting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #akiotoyoda #toyotaindustries #acquisitions #stocks

Vietnam’s trade minister has met with executives from Nike and Walmart as part of a major charm offensive targeting U.S. businesses, aiming to rally support ahead of high-stakes trade negotiations to avoid steep tariffs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/12/companies/vietnam-nike-walmart-us-tariff/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #vietnam #nike #walmart #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans

Vietnam’s trade minister has met with executives from Nike and Walmart as part of a major charm offensive targeting U.S. businesses, aiming to rally support ahead of high-stakes trade negotiations to avoid steep tariffs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/12/companies/vietnam-nike-walmart-us-tariff/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #vietnam #nike #walmart #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans

Vietnam’s trade minister has met with executives from Nike and Walmart as part of a major charm offensive targeting U.S. businesses, aiming to rally support ahead of high-stakes trade negotiations to avoid steep tariffs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/12/companies/vietnam-nike-walmart-us-tariff/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #vietnam #nike #walmart #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans

The monocausal event of monetizing people’s attention

But we have more commons today than just the physical. That’s what changed. The average American adult 7 hours a day looking at a screen, more than half of that on a mobile. FAAMG controlled over 85% of lal time spent online in the US. Facebook alone controls 4 of the 5 most downloaded apps globally. Texting is our primary mode of communication. More than half of the US teens say they spend more time with friends online than in person.

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I don’t know what’s next. Attention-to-earnings ratio is not one to one. And time-plateau doesn’t mean a revenue plateau. So maybe a large part of what we see as attention above gets redirected into agents acting on our behalf. Granted, they are likely to be less impacted by advertisements per se, but there will be new methods of economic rent-seeking. Maybe it’s more ambient computing so the number of hours spent online blur into all hours which also blur with our offline lives.

The competition is fierce. However, one thing that we’ve not accounted for is how does attention itself change from one to the other. No trend is forever. In addition to the fact that most of our attention is spent online, there’s a powerful undercurrent that’s currently focusing on what we’ve lost by doing that too.

If AI does get going and there’s a path in this world where more of what we do gets automated, cheaply, freely, then where does our attention go? Might there not be a real possibility for that attention to step away from the online to the offline? It might be wishful thinking from my part and some recency bias given how much taking myself offline has helped my own mental sanity.

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Mitsubishi Estate has bought a majority stake in European private equity property fund manager Patron Capital, the latest sign of Japanese investment washing into the U.K. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/12/companies/mitsubishi-estate-uk-investment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mitsubishiestate #patroncapital #investments #realestate

Alimentation Couche-Tard says several buyers are eyeing its convenience stores in the U.S. that overlap with Seven & I Holdings, which could help it move forward with its proposal to buy its Japanese rival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/12/companies/couche-tard-more-push-for-seven-i-buyout/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #couchetard #seveniholdings #seveneleven #conveniencestores #acquisitions

Jera, Japan’s largest power generation company, has reached agreements to buy as much as 5.5 million tons per year of liquefied natural gas from U.S. suppliers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/12/companies/jera-lng-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #jera #lng #us #energy #tariffs

Over 20,000 malicious IP addresses or domains linked to infostealer malware have been taken down in a joint international operation joined by Japan and 25 other countries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/12/companies/npa-interpol-malware/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #npa #interpol #cybersecurity

Hyundai Motor has about a year's worth of rare earths stockpiled, and it does not expect any near-term impact from global supply chain disruptions caused by China's export curbs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/11/companies/hyundai-rare-earths-stockpile-year/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #hyundai #rareearths #electricvehicles #carmakers

3D Investment Partners has urged other shareholders in Nippon Steel to vote against reappointing its president and vice chairman over the drawn-out U.S. takeover that threatens "irreversible” value destruction. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/11/companies/3d-nippon-steel-shareholders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #nipponsteel #ussteel #3d #acquisitions #investments