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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
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Avoid making classification decisions during capture — defer

Avoid making classification decisions during capture — defer categorization to processing sessions to maintain capture speed and prevent premature filtering.

Why This Is a Principle

Grounds in Attention as Gate to Conscious Perception (attention is capacity-limited) and Goals as Perceptual Filters (goals act as perceptual filters). The principle prescribes temporal separation of capture and classification to prevent attention splitting. Actionable design guidance derived from attention constraints.