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Laissez-faire Cognitive Debt

calendar_today November 19, 2025 person John V Willshire domain smithery

I have been thinking a lot recently about Cognitive Debt from one particular perspective; often the need for ‘thinking’ is not being replaced, but instead just reshaped and pushed elsewhere in a system. Recap: I think of Cognitive Debt as ‘where we have the answers, but not the thinking that went into producing those answers”. […]

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