going slow
calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.
Keely Adler and
going slow
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
I also think a lot about the old, iconic structures around the world that have stood the test of time and, in many cases, where we aren’t quite sure of all the details of how they were constructed. Marvels like the Colosseum, Roman aqueducts, or the Great Wall. Incredible architectural feats that were, by necessity, built to last and built slowly –... See more
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures)
He offers a thought experiment: what if the brief to design a new train connection was given to Disney instead of railway engineers? The latter immediately focuses on speed, time, distance and capacity. With Disney, the goal wouldn’t be to shave minutes off the journey. They may ask a different question: “How do we make the train journey so... See more
311 / The fallacy of faster
move fast break things era is over. it’s time to think deeply and make generationally good decisions
roontwitter.comI run slowly, I always have. I run for pleasure, even though I don’t like it. I run because it’s an easy way to get exercise with little time and no equipment. I run because it’s efficient, but I do it slowly, and I do it for fun, but I don’t like it. Sometimes people make no sense.
My problem is: when someone passes me, I always feel beaten. Even... See more
My problem is: when someone passes me, I always feel beaten. Even... See more
Rachel Katz • The Dancing Tortoise
Now I’m trying really hard to slow down. Pay complete attention. Lately I’ve internalized there’s something so sacred about focus, rather than constantly deliberating between monitor screens and plans and side hustles. Depth rather than breadth. In a world that is increasingly accelerating — social media eyeballs and immediate gratification and a
... See morein praise of slowing down
an argument for going slow in product work and the importance of letting things marinate, via Jason Fried:
... See moreIn the course of building products, you'll likely experience moments when you're unsure of a certain screen, flow, condition, label, idea, whatever.
Maybe this button doesn't feel right. Or the name of this feature feels unresolved. Or some
