going slow
calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.
by Keely Adler and · updated 2d ago
going slow
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On shortcuts and longcuts
sari added 3d ago
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David Lynch lashes out at crew for not letting him go dreamy
sari added 9d ago
Even though we try to ship very quickly, sometimes you just have to wait a while for the good stuff. We initially started work on improving projects and the project page in particular more than 2 years ago at an offsite in Berlin. The initial designs had a lot in common with what we shipped today, where documents play a big role in describing your project before the first issue is added to it. We had all the intention on implementing the plan quickly. But we weren't happy with the initial specifications and ran into various challenges trying to improve on them. Eventually we got distracted with other important projects. When we were ready to jump back on the next evolution of projects in Linear, we realized that we had a lot of technical functionality and infrastructure that we needed to build before we could move ahead. With documents in the centre, and many people working on a single project, we felt that we first needed a collaborative document editor. So we built the infrastructure and functionality to make any editor in Linear collaborative. Then we need more functionality out of the editor. Make images resizable. Add support for embeddable objects (e.g. Issue and project links). Add support for tables. Add the ability to comment on any document. And finally we fixed or improved 200 separate issues in the editor that really made it shine. An now we're finally ready to start rolling out functionality for PM's and other planners. This is the first release of many to come geared towards closing the gap between planning and building.
gabriel added 10d ago
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alex added 1mo ago
slow life
5 cards · by Mike Evans
Mike Evans added 1mo ago
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Chamath on the importance of slow compounding:
“The faster you build it, that is the half life: it will get destroyed in the same amount of time.”
Things tend to come and go, tip to one side and then the other, tide out and back in, grow and then rot, get created and destroyed, at the same speed.sari added 1mo ago
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The constraints of the medium, then, are the constraints of our embodiment, or at least that is my proposition to you. And these are, in part, the constraints of place and time. I can only be here now, and I can be here now only for so long, which means there are only so many things to which I can meaningfully attend at length and at depth. I may c
... See morefrom The Art of Living by L. M. Sacasas
simon added 2mo ago
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Alara and added 2mo ago
- I love having email conversations without an inbuilt sense of rush or urgency that most email demands!
from Bonfire catch-up.
lili added 3mo ago
a note form a friend in an email thread we’ve been slowly tending to.
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The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more.
The converse is true, too. If every time you write a blog post it takes you six months, and you’re sitting around... See morefrom Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blog by James Somers
alex added 3mo ago