Essay
22 Aug 2026
12 min
Reported
The age a model assigns you
When software estimates how fast a brain is ageing, a private process becomes a score. Identity and threat follow the number — not, automatically, the tissue.
Human index
7 pieces mapped to this lens.
executive function
Pieces that engage executive function as a primary psychological lens.
Published reading
All constructs ↗Essay
21 Aug 2026
11 min
Reported
The classroom without a pocket
Phone bans are not a morality play. They are a mixed empirical literature about attention, equity, and what a developing control system is asked to practise.
Brief
20 Aug 2026
6 min
Reported
The inner voice that is no longer only yours
After enough fluent completions, some people notice a stranger’s cadence in thought. That report is phenomenological. Inner-speech science is older, and it does not yet include this residue as a finding.
Brief
20 Aug 2026
6 min
Reported
Motivation is not a mood — it is a circuit people will sell
Animal work on orexin and persistence is real. The leap from rat breakpoint to a human product is not.
Essay
28 Jul 2026
8 min
Reported
The mind that outsources thinking
When fluent machines answer before we finish forming the question, judgment does not vanish overnight. It thins — rehearsal by rehearsal — until expertise becomes a feeling we can no longer check.
Brief
27 Jul 2026
6 min
Reported
Notification debt: the invisible cognitive tax
Every unread badge is a half-open loop. The cost is not the glance. It is the residue in working memory.
Essay
24 Jul 2026
6 min
Reported
When search replaces memory, what do we still know?
External memory is ancient — notebooks, maps, other people. Instant search changes the bargain: we outsource not only facts, but the paths that once made facts ours.