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Scruton believes that if we’re less concerned with ruling the world than with having a secure place to enjoy the “goods of social affection,” then we’ll be more likely to treat generously others who want to enjoy those same goods, even if those people are very different from us in both belief and practice.
It’s sufficient to take from it the insight that every moment of a human existence is completely shot through with the fact of what Heidegger calls our “finitude.” Our limited time isn’t just one among various things we have to cope with; rather, it’s the thing that defines us, as humans, before we start coping with anything at all.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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
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