Lessons tagged “working-memory”
5 published lessons with this tag.
perception
Mental inventory is always incomplete
Your sense of cognitive completeness is an illusion. What you can access at any moment is a context-dependent sample of what you actually know — and the sample changes without your awareness.
perception
Externalization reduces cognitive load
Moving information out of your head frees working memory for higher-order processing. Cognitive offloading is not laziness — it is how minds were designed to operate when paired with tools.
perception
Attention residue lingers
Unfinished tasks leave attention residue that degrades focus on subsequent tasks.
perception
Context switching requires context loading
When you change contexts you must deliberately load the relevant frame of reference.
agents
Context hand-off between agents
When one agent finishes and another starts the relevant context must transfer cleanly.