Thus having more time to generate options opens the…

Thus having more time to generate options opens the door for inferior ones.

— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer

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We want every duck in a tidy, evenly spaced, aesthetically pleasing row before we will waddle anywhere. But the row never comes, and the waiting costs more than we think — past a point, more time, more memory, and more data do not sharpen the judgment, they dull it. The professional's discipline is the opposite of paralysis: he refuses to tolerate disorder, eliminates chaos from his workspace so as to banish it from his mind, and finds that the organization is what frees him to act and create. — Takeoff Into Chaos

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