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Nothing that changed my life was made by people who were in a hurry—it was definitely made by people who took special care in their work and were after making the best possible work.
I am tired of conversations that revolve around making things that lack care, products that exist because the founder wants to hit some external metric and appear a cer
... See moreLuxury takes time to be achieved and to be appreciated. Luxury cannot and must not move fast.
-Giorgio Armani
Design has evolved to meet the challenge of the new relationship between people and the material goods they need. Today, designers — artisans, manufacturers, engineers, architects — think far beyond the way things look. Comparing pre-industrial design to post-industrial design with a picture is absurd. Critiquing a modern object based on its appear... See more
Beauty in the machine: post-industrial design
meaningful productivity often comes not from hurrying things up but from letting them take the time they take, surrendering to what in German has been called Eigenzeit, or the time inherent to a process itself.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
