Clarity Under Pressure
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Judgment improves not by speed alone, but by feedback and correction.

Daniel KahnemanThinking, Fast and Slow, 2011

Read the quote as instruction, not as comfort. In a rollback decision with incomplete telemetry, the word correction is where the cost hides. If you miss it, you will pay it later.

In a rollback decision with incomplete telemetry, the phrase can feel abstract until the system bites. It shows up as a boundary shift that moves work onto a team that did not agree, where local logic produces global trouble. Do not hide the tradeoff in prose; make it two lines so it stays readable when time is short.

Daniel Kahneman is a reminder to keep it concrete. Name the signal that ends the attempt and the action you will take when it appears. Keep it short enough to remember under stress.

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