going slow
calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.
Keely Adler and
going slow
Your life is passing you by as you rush to hit your goals.
Goals that, once you hit them, won't leave you much more fulfilled than you feel today.
Slow down. You only get one ticket to ride life's rollercoaster.
So I think this is a really interesting concept you can apply in a lot of different ways. And the key thing here I think is that slow and steady is great. You don't have to do anything heroic. You know the difference in slopes doesn't have to be that great if you just every day think about learning a little bit more and getting a little bit better,... See more
gist.github.com • slope_vs_starting.md
Technology moves fast. Biology moves slowly
Joseph Heller wrote Catch 22 in the evenings after work - it took him eight years spending 2-3 hours each night.
source: Daily Rituals, Mason Currey
It's not slow and steady wins the race, but slow and steady keeps you on the right course, because there is no race.
It’s an entrepreneurial trope, and a tired one, to believe that I should maximize every aspect of launching . Most everybody who's been in my shoes heralds events as the best way to get people in the door, which is another way of saying that events are the best way to make money. Money is important, sure, but I’ve generally found it to be a shitty... See more
Quiet Openings
fast gets all our attention. slow has all the power.
go slow - but also create momentum for yourself
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
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