Field Note #064| Epistemic Laziness

Podcast: Engineering the Intelligent Enterprise · PRASAD BHONDE

Opublikowano: 2026-10-18

Why is it becoming harder to get a straight answer in a review meeting even as the documents on the table get cleaner, longer, and better organised? In this Field Notes, we examine Epistemic Laziness: the substitution of automated fluency for personal understanding. Historically, the struggle to write a coherent proposal forced practitioners to discover the flaws in their own assumptions. When software removes that struggle, it delivers the finished posture of expertise without the cognitive calibration that makes expertise safe. We explore why the human brain equates readability...