In a world that optimizes everything for speed, slowing down is a radical act. We are told to ship fast, iterate, pivot. And that is often right. But not always.

Some things require time. Understanding a problem deeply. Finding the right name for a function. Deciding whether a feature is truly necessary or just noise.

I have learned to distrust my first ideas. They are often right about the what, rarely about the how. Time allows things to settle, to see the blind spots, to find the elegant solution hiding behind the obvious one.

Slowing down is not procrastinating. It is giving each decision the space it deserves. It is accepting that quality has a temporal cost, and that this cost is an investment.