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Waiting, Not Seeking: Reading As Resistance
Attention in a World Designed Against It
 • Carl Hendrick
The Blind Regulator: Ashby's Law and the Unavoidable Logic of Instructional Design
“Only variety can destroy variety.”
 • Carl Hendrick
How Much Cognitive Damage Does A Phone Notification Actually Do?
New Research Reveals The Hidden Cost Of Our Most Persistent Distraction. It's Worse Than You Think.
 • Carl Hendrick
The "Embarrassingly Parallel" Problem: When Students Understand the Parts But Not The Whole
On the "embarrassingly parallel problem" and what it reveals about the limits of learning technology.
 • Carl Hendrick
The Monthly Dispatch - What's New in Learning Science? - February 2026
New evidence on spacing, practice, early instruction, and reading shows that durable learning emerges through delayed effects, structured practice, and…
 • Carl Hendrick
The Architecture of Learning: Complexity From Simplicity
On near decomposability and the design of learning systems
 • Carl Hendrick
Privileging the Already Privileged
The Progressive Case for Explicit Instruction
 • Carl Hendrick
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