Creativity vs Efficiency 🎨 ✨ 📥
What would it look like if, in a McLuhan-esque, medium is the message sort of way, our tools said to us:
It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the... See more
It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the... See more
Sari Azout • What Does Slow AI Look Like?
Productivity tools shape our thinking in ways that favor standardization, efficiency, and predictability. They demand structure before inspiration has a chance to strike. They ask for timelines when the problem itself is still hazy. But creativity is not linear. Often, it involves struggling down several blind alleys before finding the right path.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
I love my art process, it’s paced slowly, my life is quite relaxed. I feel an urge to add, am I missing something, am I unaligned...no I find out, after many mental circles, that’s not it. So why do I feel untethered and as if I'm waiting but also not quite impressed by any option. Is the radical answer to go with even less, to simplify more. To
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