🌳 slow, intuitive productivity

Creativity requires connecting the dots, and connecting the dots requires allowing time for my subconscious to consolidate my ideas and make associations. This means that, from time to time, I need to just stare out the window... This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is. Ozan Varol

by baja · updated 20d ago

But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that wide empty space that ideas emerge. Long runs, hot showers, commutes that don’t involve harried Slack messages and listening to podcasts at 2x speed. Sitting at the edge of a dock, listening to the o... See more
from the scenic route by Jasmine Sun
baja added 2mo ago
“However, whenever I come to a complicated place, I size up the difficulties, tell myself to watch out and be careful, keep my eyes on what I’m doing, work very slowly, and move my knife with the greatest of subtlety, until—flop! the whole thing comes apart like a clod of earth crumbling to the ground.
from Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
baja added 2mo ago
So now, there’s the growing phenomena of people aggressively beginning to revoke other people’s access to their attention online. They’re taking digital sabbaticals, setting strict communication windows for checking and replying to messages, ignoring or archiving messages unless they’re from known people, turning off all app notifications. They are... See more
from idle gaze 067: slowpunk by Alexi Gunner
baja added 2mo ago
A resentment rooted in the most cunning lie ever weaved by the tech industry : the promise that software, apps and phones were going to free us and make our lives easier. Instead, they made everything unbearably hectic.
from idle gaze 067: slowpunk by Alexi Gunner
baja added 2mo ago
Creativity requires connecting the dots, and connecting the dots requires allowing time for my subconscious to consolidate my ideas and make associations. This means that, from time to time, I need to just stare out the window and do nothing.

This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.
from You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol by Ozan Varol
baja added 3mo ago
What’s surprising about these results is that we typically celebrate great entrepreneurs and leaders for being strong-minded and clear-sighted. They’re supposed to be paragons of conviction: decisive and certain. Yet evidence reveals that when business executives compete in tournaments to price products,19 the best strategists are actually slow and
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from Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
baja added 3mo ago
the best strategists are actually slow and unsure.
System 1 allows us to conserve mental energy when dealing with familiar patterns, and to react efficiently when faced with a situation that demands action rather than thought (you don’t want to be in a methodical frame of mind when deciding how to handle the information that a car is hurtling towards you). Still, most of us identify more closely wi... See more
from How “fast” and “slow” thinking can help us handle technostress by Caragh Medlicott
baja added 3mo ago
Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, posits that there are two key cognitive systems that drive our thinking and the way we go about making decisions. The first system (System 1) is instinctual, emotional and fast. Conversely, the second system (System 2), is more strategic and methodical in its worki... See more
from How “fast” and “slow” thinking can help us handle technostress by Caragh Medlicott
baja added 3mo ago
deep tiredness rises to become a form of salvation, a form of rejuvenation.
from The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
baja added 4mo ago

from the scenic route by Jasmine Sun

from Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

from idle gaze 067: slowpunk by Alexi Gunner

from idle gaze 067: slowpunk by Alexi Gunner

from You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol by Ozan Varol

from Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant

from How “fast” and “slow” thinking can help us handle technostress by Caragh Medlicott

from How “fast” and “slow” thinking can help us handle technostress by Caragh Medlicott

from The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han