going slow
calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.
Keely Adler and
going slow
“Life is always winking at us, calling our attention to the beauty hidden in plain sight. Why do we so often miss what’s right in front of us, lost in thought, constantly checking our phones or tethered to endless to-do lists?”
338 / The comfort class bubble
I didn’t feel comfortable inside the endlessness of it. I am the kind of writer who believes in taking the time I need to come up with something worth saying. I work quickly but I don’t always work - and that’s because the thoughts are in my slow cooker and the timer hasn’t gone off. Once the timer goes off, I know exactly what I will serve on the... See more
Jeanette Winterson • I GUESS IT'S TIME TO COME BACK
some honest reflections on the tendencies i have to be harsh with myself when i do not know what is next
instagram.comWhat does slow AI look like?
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
We’ve assumed that the way we interact with it is instantaneous. Are we sure that’s right? What if we want to see things, refine things, consider things. I think we want to mull them over. I think we want to discuss them.
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."
Ideas require patience.
At Steve Jobs’ funeral, Apple's chief designer Jony Ive said: “I think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily just squished.” https://t.co/Yee5XC9jll
David Perelltwitter.comfast gets all our attention. slow has all the power.
