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The Effort Tax: Why Your Brain's Clock Doesn't Match the Wall Clock

Your calendar says the task takes fifteen minutes. Your brain pays for two hours. Until you price that gap, every productivity system you try will quietly bill you for the difference.

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Opening piece of the Cognitive ROI series, serialized from the Harness the Superpower draft: the cognitive ROI equation, the four components of the effort tax, why standard productivity advice mis-prices work for divergent brains, and the five-step audit that reprices it.