Patience is the ultimate competitive advantage

fast gets all the attention. slow has all the power.

I can't stop thinking about this:
Fast gets all the attention.
Slow has all the power.

If you're feeling everyone around you is moving faster and achieving more while you're being left behind—take a breath. That narrative is bullshit.

The constant pressure to compress what takes decades of work into days is a mirage.

Patience is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Here’s a moodboard — on patience.

Hermes creative director in a 60 minutes interview.

Lovely from Visa Veerasamy. Giving up too early prevents people from reaching their potential.

Chamath on the importance of slow compounding. The faster something grows, the faster it can also die. Things tend to get created and destroyed at the same speed.

Jerry Seinfeld on creativity — it’s hard, messy, often quite authoritarian, and… takes time.

The growth curve of the Acquired podcast, one of the most popular podcasts today. If it would've been a startup, it would've been shuttered after two years because of slow growth.

What if waiting was the goal?

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