Cognitive Hygiene: Why You Need to Make Thinking Hard Again - YouTube
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Everyone's talking about how AI is changing work. Not enough people are talking about how it's changing thought. At first, the shift looked like efficiency. Fewer hours lost to emails. More leverage in content creation. A personal assistant with perfect recall, infinite patience, and no salary expectations. But when you zoom out, the gains start to blur. Because we aren't just offloading tasks. We're offloading cognition. Writing used to be a process of structuring memory. Now it’s a process of prompting a black box to simulate it. Reading used to involve parsing meaning, following…
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