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Against 3X Speed - David Perell
Slowness, he explained, nurtures attention, and speed shatters it.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
The general assumption driven by these optimization models is always that faster is better. I think there are things we need to deliberately and consciously slow down for our own sanity and for our own productivity. If we don’t ask that question about what those things are, I think we’ll get things terribly, terribly wrong.
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
a more patient, thoughtful approach that favors rereading, reformulating, and working through the implications of ideas over time.