september 16 idb

Yesterday's post about cognitive surrender was a low-key hit. It led to a lot of really good offline conversations about the phenomenon —— and the upvotes weren't bad either. "Cognitive surrender may be the most dystopian term I've ever heard," said a friend. I'm prone to agree. It's so apropos and visceral, and you don't read it as much as you feel it hit you in the chest like a football between the numbers, a puff of air sharply exhaled to communicate the force of the thing. I'd write more but I had a minor medical procedure today (everything is fine) and I'm spent. Before I go, though, there's something I wanted to put into last night's post but chose not to, and it's that "cognitive surrender" anagrams into the following: cornering servitude introducing reverse introduce reversing verged insurrection detouring scrivener inverted resourcing revering reductions reintroduce serving divergent recursion There are more, obviously, but these are the ones that felt most appropriate to…