going slow
calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.
Keely Adler and
going slow
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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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I 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
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I love having email conversations without an inbuilt sense of rush or urgency that most email demands!
Bonfire catch-up.
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a note form a friend in an email thread we’ve been slowly tending to.
This Maria Popova quote stopped me in my tracks:
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but n... See more
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but n... See more
Erikc Perez-Perez added 1y
In contemporary society, our adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds
-shared by David Horne
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We don’t have time to process one event before moving on to the next these days. How we experience time and memory has been altered completely. It’s like we’re stuck in a perpetual now. When the apocalypse arrives, it’s going to be reduced to just another clickbait headline.
Dasha Nekrasova • Jon Rafman and Dasha Nekrasova on the Horror We Call Life
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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 p
... See morein praise of slowing down
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