This concept — “Executive Function Theft” — is such a lucid description of a constant source of frustration that, like the author, I can’t believe it hasn’t been named before and dug into.

https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2023/08/14/executive-function-theft/

It's the thing “where one entity offloads things they consider unimportant onto some other entity they consider unimportant”. Once you see it you can't unsee it.

(Via #MetaFilter here: https://www.metafilter.com/201252/Executive-Function-Theft)

Executive Function Theft

The phrase arrived in my head so completely formed and concrete that I couldn’t believe it wasn’t already established in the lexicon, but at least preliminary searches suggest it is not…

^{Hedgehog Librarian}