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=== Assistant: The biggest mistake we are making right now is confusing speed and scale with understanding and wisdom. ===
The biggest mistake we are making right now is confusing speed and scale with understanding and wisdom.

We’re optimizing everything—technology, work, communication, outrage, entertainment—for velocity: faster responses, bigger reach, constant output. But we’re not investing nearly enough in sense-making: time to think, to integrate, to question first impressions, to build shared mental models.

A few concrete symptoms of the same core error:
* Mistaking information for knowledge We have more data than ever and less agreement on what it means. Consuming takes the place of thinking.
* Letting incentives do our thinking for us Algorithms reward what spreads, not what’s true; organizations reward what measures well, not what matters. We act surprised when outcomes follow incentives.
* Outsourcing judgment To metrics, to crowds, to AI, to tribes. Tools are replacing responsibility instead of supporting it.
* Moral certainty without epistemic humility People are more sure they’re right while less sure they understand the system they’re judging.

If I’m blunt:
We’re acting like cleverness can replace wisdom, and it can’t. Clever scales; wisdom doesn’t—unless people deliberately slow down to carry it.

What to do about it at an individual level (because “we” is easy and responsibility isn’t):
* Build thinking latency into your life—time where nothing is optimized.
* Track incentives before trusting conclusions (including your own).
* Be suspicious of takes that feel immediately satisfying.
* Prefer models over opinions.

If you want, we can narrow this: society, tech, science, work culture, parenting, or something closer to home.