going slow
calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.
Keely Adler and
going slow
Keely Adler and
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A world where everyone strives for this. Just dreaming.
Jim 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."