If you can’t learn, you can’t thrive. - Cal Newport

What ended up mattering, however, was instead the obsessive efforts of an eccentric creative talent who spent over three years nurturing a vision, coming at it again and again in an attempt to create something special.

If you slacked off your attention for even a moment, you could stall the entire line — forcing workers into an unnatural combination of boredom and constant attentiveness.

SLOW PRODUCTIVITY A philosophy for organizing knowledge work efforts in a sustainable and meaningful manner, based on the following three principles: 1. Do fewer things. 2. Work at a natural pace. 3. Obsess over quality.