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Research Notes: The Latency We Used to Have

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A Z Mackay
Aug 06, 2025
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The Starting Question

Every workplace has someone with a “wait 24 hours before sending that email” rule. Usually learned the hard way. That got me wondering about something deeper. What if the delay wasn’t just good advice? What if all those hours and days that used to separate thought from transmission weren’t bugs we fixed, but features we accidentally…

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