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Conversation Substance Reset CSR
noun phrase · social cognition · interaction design
Definition
The implicit negotiation required at the start of a new interaction to re-establish shared context, relational register, and conversational depth — compensating for the stateless nature of communication systems that do not persist state between sessions.
The Problem
Each new conversation begins at zero. Relational depth, vocabulary calibration, and established trust are not inherited — they must be reconstructed, often inefficiently and invisibly.
The Insight
Social interactions are stateful systems. CSR is the overhead cost of re-initializing that state — a tax paid on every cold open that prior interactions already paid in full.
Origin Coined by modeling a social dynamic as a stateful system — recognizing that "starting fresh" is not neutral but carries a concrete cost, and naming the variable that accounts for it. - 02.
Cadence Calculation Overload CCO
noun phrase · meta-cognition · decision theory
Definition
The cognitive failure mode in which a timing or pacing decision — one that is inherently governed by feel, context, and real-time feedback — is over-engineered into an analytical problem, producing decision paralysis or behavioral artificiality in place of natural execution.
The Problem
Certain variables resist calculation. Applying formal optimization logic to fluid, signal-dependent timing does not improve outcomes — it introduces latency, self-consciousness, and visible contrivance.
The Insight
Recognizing CCO in real time is itself a metacognitive act — catching the analytical process mid-flight and naming it before it degrades the very outcome it was meant to improve.
Origin Coined mid-process: noticing the act of over-engineering a timing decision and labeling the pattern in the moment it was occurring — a reflexive application of metacognition to metacognition itself.
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