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I’ll get back to you whenever The expectation of an immediate response is the ember that ignites so many fires at work. First someone emails you. Then if they don’t hear from you in a few minutes, they text you. No answer? Next they call you. Then they ask someone else where you are. And that someone else goes through the same steps to get your att
... See moreDavid Heinemeier Hansson • It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
“But now it has become a much broader cultural discussion about the benefits of doing things in a more human, less frenetic manner.”
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Panic is not a business strategy.What would happen if we all. slowed. down. our marketing?•It means that we can accept that sometimes it will take a while to build trust with people we’ve just met.It means that instead of pressuring people to buy right now, we encourage them to sleep on it and sit with it to make sure it’s really a fit (so that any... See more
Tad Hargrave • slow marketing - Marketing For Hippies
Acceleration also leads to exhaustion – because humans aren’t a version of Moore’s Law, where the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every 2 years, increasing speed and lowering price. Humans sometimes need to slow down. We run out of ideas.
Jeanette Winterson • 12 Bytes
Love embraces slowness, likely even demands it. So why are we all in such a rush?