going slow
calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.
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going slow
This Maria Popova quote stopped me in my tracks:
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but... See more
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but... See more
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World a book by David Epstein
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Preferable future habitats
whispersandgiants.com
A world where everyone strives for this. Just dreaming.
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... See more
Tuomas Artmanx.commove fast break things era is over. it’s time to think deeply and make generationally good decisions
roontwitter.comJim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
Insights from Byung-Chul Han:
The rise of narcissism, the emphasis on authenticity, and shallow technological experiences are eroding essential societal bonds
We need daily and lifelong rituals to help bring narrative structure into our lives
In the past,... See more