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Good advice. I've converged on a catchphrase/mantra in recent years: "Slow down to hurry up." Attempting to rush urgent features or fixes can paradoxically make
by lukifer 13y ago
Good advice. I've converged on a catchphrase/mantra in recent years: "Slow down to hurry up." Attempting to rush urgent features or fixes can paradoxically make them take longer to finish.
- gaius 13y agoWe have a saying in diving, "slow is smooth and smooth is fast".
- PeterWhittaker 13y agoNot to mention "breathe, remember to breathe". Do you remember the first time that, while properly weighted, you descended effortlessly, just by really exhaling, for real? I know where I was the first time. It's amazing when it works, and you realize just how much air you had been holding in your lungs, without being aware of it. My air consumption dropped after that.
- erbo 13y agoThat's a truism of orbital mechanics: to speed up, you slow down, thereby dropping into a lower orbit where you go faster. This was used as an effective metaphor (along your lines) by John Brunner in The Shockwave Rider.
- dcminter 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festina_lente http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festina_lente