Slow Productivity

What I like most about deadlines is the whistling sound they make when the pass by.

“Relentless execution without knowing what to execute is a crime.”

Steve Blank

“if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours

Many founders, out of their fear of things slowing down, are missing the opportunities that [slowing down] affords them.

Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC

"If it's not a Hell Yes, then it's a NO."
@sivers

"There are a million opportunities. Things to say 'no' to, that you would've begged to have the opportunity to say 'yes' to only two years ago. So you're permanently readjusting the sensitivity on what constitutes a ‘hell yeah’. What you would have begged for yesterday is something you now need to learn to say 'no' to today."

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