Increasingly common throughout the 21st century, "cognitive debt" refers to the phenomenon where your brain is increasingly "untrained" due to outsourcing your thinking to Google or ChatGPT.
With all the answers just a quick search away, I realized I was accumulating cognitive debt—my brain felt rusty because I relied too much on Google instead of remembering things myself.
by Emotional Cruiser September 25, 2025
Get the cognitive debtmug.