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Second, we need better ways to detect cognitive debt before it becomes crippling. Warning signs include: team members hesitating to make changes for fear of unintended consequences, increased reliance on “tribal knowledge” held by just one or two people, or a growing sense that the system is becoming a black box. These may be signals that the shared theory is eroding.
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern From Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
Margaret-Anne Storey
Clinging to suffering, paradoxically, is a way of trying to take care of ourselves. We’re convinced that the kernel of resolution will appear from somewhere inside the rubble of the problem. But usually the only thing that appears is more suffering…we’re left stuck in the rubble, scavenging for that unfindable gem of relief. So too, continually thinking about what hurts makes us feel that our pain matters, that it didn’t happen for no reason, and that it won’t be forgotten.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
These disparate findings leave some questions unanswered. “How on earth can you get a more than 30 point spread between them?” Mr. Bloom asked. “It all comes down to how workers are managed. If you set up fully remote with good management and incentives, and people are meeting in person, it can work. What doesn’t seem to work is sending people home with no face-time at all.”
What We Know About the Effects of Remote Work - The New York Times
Emma Goldberg
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