going slow
calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.
Keely Adler and
going slow
We adore quick wins these days: the kid on Youtube who goes viral and becomes an overnight sensation, the tech startup that goes from zero to unicorn in a year, the miracle makeover. At this point, the story of the tortoise and the hare is passé, and who really reads this to their kids anymore—I never have. We might as well rewrite the thing: the... See more
Rachel Katz • The Dancing Tortoise
Good morning 🌞
Image ID: On Waking Up
I am wondering when newer became better.
When we forsook the familiar for ideas of the future, mistook the mundane for less than extraordinary, wrote it off like a story.
I am wondering when less stopped being... See more
instagram.comyou can be spinning on wheels without necessarily moving forward.
velocity = speed x direction
50 × 0 = 0
100 × 0 = 0
20 × 5 = 100
in praise of slowing down
nicoles.substack.com
My countervailing advice to people trying to understand something is: go slow. Read slowly, think slowly, really spend time pondering the thing. Start by thinking about the question yourself before reading a bunch of stuff about it. A week or a month of continuous pondering about a question will get you surprisingly far.
nabeelqu.co • Nabeelqu
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more.
The converse is true, too. If every time you write a blog post it takes you six months, and you’re sitting around... See more
The converse is true, too. If every time you write a blog post it takes you six months, and you’re sitting around... See more
James Somers • Speed Matters: Why Working Quickly Is More Important Than It Seems
the antidote to going slow