Let’s be Fwends #141:

Please, Slow Down

“This is the way ideas come: after you have stopped straining for them and have passed through a period of rest and relaxation from the search.”

~ James Young

Hi, and welcome to a very late edition of Let’s be Fwends. It’s an invitation to slow down a bit, and that’s what we’re going to do.

Slowing Down

For whatever reason, I’ve been thinking a lot about speed recently. And whether slowness or deliberation is the opposite of it. I guess it depends on what kind of speed we’re talking about.

When thinking about work and action, there’s this inherent tension between concentrating on the outcome of our action, and the action itself. Between getting it done and taking your time to get it right (or maybe through it out of the window completely).

Us Agile Folk often talk about speed, delivery, getting it done. I think we need to talk a lot more about taking your time, thinking about it, inviting others to think about it together, and just letting it sit in the back of our mind for a while.

So here’s an invitation to slow the fuck down.