Posts about cognition
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Skills Are Collapsed Recursion
Humans handle about three layers of abstraction before working memory fills up. Skills, rules, and frameworks exist to flatten the fourth layer into something you can hold.
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Why AI Assistants Make Us Dumber (And What Governance Should Do About It)
The cognitive offloading problem is real. The governance response mostly isn't. There's a specific mechanism at work, and it has a specific fix.
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How Claude Code Helps You Think
AI becomes most powerful when it helps you discover what your ideas actually are. Cognitive partnership over replacement.
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Intelligence on Tap
When artificial intelligence becomes as mundane as running water, how does thinking itself change?
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What and Why Beat How
When implementation becomes automated, human intelligence reallocates to purpose and strategy. The cognitive hierarchy inverts.