alt Hacker News> The second is absorption: mental models form, edge cases become intuitive, architectural relationships solidify into understanding. ... . The friction of implementation creates space for reasoning.
> This gap between output velocity and comprehension velocity is cognitive debt.
I have felt that lack of absorption during the last months, adding doomscroolling to the equation, I have felt how my thinking is disappearing.
I tried to speculatively expand that idea in this post
I like this phrase from the post you shared:
> A species that cannot follow the reasoning of its own systems does not supervise them; it simply inhabits them until they stop working.
I feel this idea is closely related to additive bias. People are scared of breaking things, so the safest way is to just add another tiny part to an already complex system. As cognitive debt accumulates faster, this additive bias just becomes stronger imo.