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May 29 2026
First Principles

José Márquez, in his newsletter:

Humans cannot make decisions as quickly as computers. This is our blessing, not a curse.

To deliberate slowly is to have time to uncover more than just the immediate answer to the known question but also to arrive at the question behind the question: the known unknowns and the looming presence, the gravitational pull of the unknown unknowns.

Emphasis mine.

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