It's now way easier than ever before for others to waste our time.

In the work context, someone sends slop to you and asks you to approve it.

Now you have to spend your "tokens" to get it to a point where it's not slop.

The sender of the slop has the incentive to generate as much as possible, but there's no pricing on the receiving side.

The limited resource at any good VC firm is partner attention, and has been for decades.

What about giving various senders a token budget, and saying "sorry you used up your tokens with me for this week."