Festina lente: A Roman emperor's guide to getting stuff done
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Festina lente: A Roman emperor's guide to getting stuff done
When viewed at the fast scale of days and weeks, the efforts of historic thinkers like Copernicus and Newton can seem uneven and delayed. When instead viewed at the slow scale of years, their efforts suddenly seem undeniably and impressively fruitful.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Nearly a decade ago, a product manager told me about the phrase "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast." It's a military motto that refers to how elite forces traverse ground and infiltrate enemy lines. The premise is that a deliberate and highly coordinated series of interconnected movements is significantly more effective and fast than an all-out storm ... See more
Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast
Carl Honoré, in his book In Praise of Slow, sums it up beautifully: Fast and slow do more than just describe a rate of change. They are shorthand for ways of being, or philosophies of life. Fast is busy, controlling, aggressive, hurried, analytical, stressed, superficial, impatient, active, quantity-over-quality. Slow is the opposite: calm, careful
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