going slow
calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.
Keely Adler and
going slow
I understand the argument for shipping early and often. But I also believe that we should aspire to build lovable products, not viable products. And lovable products take time to build and polish.
the startupy newsletter • Things I'm Thinking About
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in praise of slowing down
nicoles.substack.com
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It's nice
after dinner
to walk down to
the beach
and find
the biggest
thing on earth
relatively calm...
after dinner
to walk down to
the beach
and find
the biggest
thing on earth
relatively calm...
andrea added 1y
In contemporary society, our adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds
-shared by David Horne
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The prevailing dogma is that startups should ship and iterate as quickly as possible. Scott believes that’s often counterproductive. You need to “surprise and delight” your customers to create a product that grows organically. You can’t do that by simply meeting a user’s expectations; you must surpass them. Doing so takes time and polishing.
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Scott Belsky
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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.”
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What does slow AI look like?
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
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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.
andrea added 1y
interesting thought on what Google should do as OpenAI and other competitors continue to lead. Go slow to go fast. Classic innovators Dilemma.
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
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