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by seadan83 980 days ago
First day of a new job, a new commute all have exceedingly high cognitive loads. Come back from that, all you did was just HR stuff and a new commute and are exhausted! After a year, suddenly that commute, the byzantine policy stuff has a cognitive load of, "yeah, this is all super simple."

My point, the unfamiliar might have actually lower cognitive load. Cognitive load is a function of what you know and what you are used to.