On slowness

I keep coming back to a small, unfashionable idea: that most of the work worth doing benefits from being done slowly. Not lazily — slowly. There’s a difference, and it’s the whole point.

Speed has a way of hiding its own costs. A thing shipped in a rush looks free until you count the follow-up fixes, the half-explained decisions, the quiet resentment of whoever inherits it. Slowness front-loads the cost where you can see it, which feels worse and almost always is better.

Doing less, better

The version of this I actually believe in isn’t “take longer” — it’s “take on less.” Fewer projects, held for longer, tended more carefully. The output goes down and the quality goes up, and after a while you stop missing the things you didn’t do.

You can’t rush the part where an idea becomes clear. You can only make room for it.

So this site is my small attempt at room-making: a plain, slow place to put things down as they become clear, without any pressure to post on a schedule.

• Write when there’s something to say.
• Keep it readable.
• Leave the rest.

That’s the whole manifesto. Thanks for reading this far.