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# Digital media's growth obsession is a problem
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2017/11/attention-limits-digital-media/
- Published: 2017-11-23T14:11:06.000Z
- Updated: 2017-11-23T14:11:06.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

[Rafat Ali on digital media’s bad week](http://rafat.org/post/167607346381/understanding-the-role-of-venture-money-in-media?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> Don’t blame investors for investing, that is their job. The only job founders/companies have, meanwhile, is to build a sustainable, long term business. “High growth at all costs” is NOT a necessary condition to it, merely a causation founders have backed themselves into if they raise too much money.

There seems, to me, to be one central truth to any content business in the digital age: attention is far from infinite, and is very, very scarce.

*Any* business model that demands increasing attention in an attention-poor age is doomed to failure, sooner-or-later. Much better, for all but the very biggest sites, to find a comfortable niche, and figure out how to make diversified revenue from it.