Cognitive offloading

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Cognitive offloading is the calculator, the search engine, the GPS. You hand off the how and keep the what. You still judge whether the result is sensible, and you intervene when it isn’t.

Delegating the "how" of a task to an external tool (calculator, search engine, AI) while retaining ownership of the "what", judging whether the result is sensible and intervening when it is not.
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