Memory
Draft Amnesia
You submitted the text, but cannot remember what it says.
How it feels
The document is polished, the email is sent, and ten minutes later you cannot reconstruct its argument without reopening it.
At work
A team member forwards an AI-polished memo, then cannot explain the second paragraph when challenged in the meeting.
Hidden cost
Memory: the output was accessed, not encoded.
You may have this if
After sending an AI-assisted draft, close it and explain the argument aloud in five sentences.
Try this instead
Use Recall-and-Teach: summarize the draft from memory before sending, then repair the parts you cannot explain.
Team rule
No one presents an AI-assisted memo until they can give a closed-screen summary of its argument.
Related book concept
Archive layer and Recall-and-Teach.
Evidence notes
Sparrow et al. (2011) describes weaker encoding when people expect information to remain searchable.
The site research page also uses the MIT Media Lab EEG essay-writing study as an anchor for AI-assisted recall loss.
Search surface
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