5 published lessons with this tag.
The vast majority of information you encounter is irrelevant to your actual goals. Treating all inputs as equally worthy of attention is itself a decision — and it is almost always the wrong one.
Information has no inherent meaning. Meaning is constructed at the intersection of information and context. Change the context, and the same data, sentence, or signal means something entirely different.
Cognitive offloading works only when it is habitual. Externalization practiced daily compounds into an extended mind. Externalization practiced occasionally produces scattered artifacts that never cohere into infrastructure.
A schema is a mental model that has been externalized, named, and structured so it can be examined, tested, and improved — turning invisible cognitive habit into visible cognitive infrastructure.
Cognitive agents are repeatable processes you design to handle recurring decisions.