Cognitive Mode Theory started with me asking what happens when the task we’ve written down doesn’t accurately represent the thinking required to move the work forward, which has slowly forced me to question some of the most ordinary assumptions I have about how we plan in the first
Research Note 003: What Happens Between the Modes? Cognitive Occupancy, Deconstruction, and the Problem With Drawing Arrows In the last research note, I gave myself a constraint that has become increasingly inconvenient: I can’t responsibly model transition weight until I’ve sufficiently characterized transition distance, and I can’t
What Cognitive Transitions Might Actually Cost Us In the last research update, I argued that before Cognitive Mode Theory can meaningfully measure transitions between cognitive modes, the modes themselves need defensible boundaries. In simpler terms: Before we measure the distance between rooms, we have to draw the walls. That gives
Cognitive Mode Theory did not start as an attempt to build a theory because it started with me trying to keep too many parts of my life moving at once. I was balancing my work at the Apple Developer Academy, building Technically Speaking, managing client projects, continuing my own professional
