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Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social

1/19/2026, 7:11:06 PM

Public

I have a particular thing I've been thinking about which is how go/no go tasks are exhausting to our executive control.

It is common in tech to make disparaging remarks about how software isn't factory work, implying factory work isn't "thinking." But factory work actually demands a lot of our cognition.

Studies on factory workers have suggested the need to constantly exert executive control is one reason that people working in factories face a lot of burnout. Not just physical exhaustion.

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