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Edward D. Andrews • Shaker furniture
Critiquing the modern obsession with speed, advocating for slowness and intentionality as superior metrics for meaningful work.
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And yet, you know, the analog is slower, which is people say, well, it's slower.
And I'm like, yeah, it's slower.
You know I have this long essay written I want to publish at some point about optimizing for speed I think one of the detriments of modern computer era and technology is that we start to think that speed is the best metric for everything
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