Cognitive Leverage
Engineering effective capacity from fixed raw capacity
THE CORE INSIGHT
You can now generate forty insights in an hour. Competitive analysis across twelve dimensions. Customer sentiment patterns. Market opportunity maps.
More information than you can act on. Less clarity than before.
Processing capacity is the scarce resource—working memory holds 5-9 items, attention bandwidth is limited, coordination overhead scales exponentially. Demand for processing grows faster than raw capacity.
Competitive advantage belongs to those who engineer effective capacity, not those who optimize raw capacity. It's not about thinking harder. It's about thinking less about more.
START HERE
Choosing Beats Thinking
You can generate forty insights before lunch. The bottleneck isn't generation—it's selection. Choosing what matters is the skill.
This reframes productivity entirely.
THE MECHANISM (CHOOSE YOUR ANGLE)
"How do I actually focus instead of just listing priorities?"
Deprioritization Discipline
"How do I recognize patterns without overgeneralizing?"
Pattern Without Overgeneralization
"Why do surface-level fixes never work?"
Find Real Bottlenecks
Information abundance creates scarcity of attention. These notes explore how to think less about more.
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CONNECTED PATTERNS
Cognitive Leverage connects to Hybrid Intelligence (AI as cognitive prosthesis) and Inverse Wisdom (counterintuitive focus strategies).