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I'm Erin Meryl. I've helped over 450k people become better learners.

I speak to an audience of hundreds of thousands of learners every time I post about neuroscience and productivity. This means I spend a lot of time thinking about thinking, and, increasingly, about what happens to human cognition when we hand so much of it to machines.

I started The Learning Lab because I was genuinely worried. Not in a Luddite way - I use AI tools every day and find them extraordinary - but I was watching people around me, smart people, slowly stop wrestling with difficult ideas. Stop sitting in the discomfort of not knowing. And I knew I had to do something to change that.

Every day, I take the latest developments in productivity, AI, and our understanding of human cognition, and distill it into actionable insights for my readers, so they can become lifelong learners.

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