Attention
Outsourced Mind
A state where the first move of thinking has migrated outside you.
How it feels
When someone asks what you think, your honest impulse is to open a model and find out.
At work
A founder cannot name their position on pricing until they have run the options through a chatbot.
Hidden cost
Attention and Decisions: the human no longer owns the initiating move.
You may have this if
Name your opinion on a current work problem before checking any external system.
Try this instead
Write the raw human position first: one paragraph, wrong but yours, before model contact.
Team rule
Decision docs must include a "pre-AI position" section written before tool use.
Related book concept
Ghost tier, Cognitive Partisan, and the 30-day protocol.
Evidence notes
Built from the book thesis that repeated delegation changes the user's default cognitive sequence.
The research page frames this through cognitive offloading, critical-thinking erosion, and recall loss.
Search surface
Related entries
Now measure the circuit
Find where this pattern is hitting you first.
The Anti-AI Brain Score maps your weakest circuit, then points you back to the practices that reload it.