going slow
calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.
Keely Adler and
going slow
I'm really inspired by also how they were really quiet for a really long time at the beginning. They were not trying to become the next new success story on the pages of every paper. They were much more just like, "We're just going to prove through the quality of our output over time that we are doing something interesting, and weird, and... See more
Camille Ricketts: Former Head of Marketing at Notion
“In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”
A quote from The Art of Stillness
Even though we try to ship very quickly, sometimes you just have to wait a while for the good stuff.
We initially started work on improving projects and the project page in particular more than 2 years ago at an offsite in Berlin. The initial designs had a lot in common with what we shipped today, where documents play a big role in... See more
Tuomas Artmanx.comHe 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
A flow state is priceless. It happens when we lose ourselves in the work, simply connecting with the task, without commentary or doubt. When we’re in flow, time slows down, satisfaction rises and we feel fully engaged.
