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zakirullin committed Oct 7, 2024
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## Low cognitive load vs familiarity

The tricky part here is that the you may not experience a high cognitive load due to familiarity with the project.
You may not experience a high cognitive load due to familiarity with the project.

> **Low cognitive load is not the same as familiarity**. They *feel* the same — that same ease of moving through a space without much mental effort — but for very different reasons. Every “clever” (read: “self-indulgent”) and non-idiomatic trick you use incurs a learning penalty for everyone else. Once they have done that learning, then they will find working with the code less difficult. So it is hard to recognise how to simplify code that you are already familiar with. This is why I try to get “the new kid” to critique the code before they get too institutionalised!
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> *Thanks to [Dan North](https://dannorth.net) for his comment*.
You've internalized the project into your long-term memory, so you don't experience cognitive load.
If you are familiar with the project and have internalized it into your long-term memory, you won't experience a high cognitive load.

![Mental Models](/img/mentalmodelsv15.png)

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