Slow growth
Herman Martinus in Grow slowly, stay small:
Slow, consistent investment over many years is how beautiful things are made, learnt, or grown. As a society we forget this truth—especially with the rise of social media and the proliferation of instant gratification. Good things take time.
In recent years, I've come to believe that craft is purpose. Not status. Not success. Not even mastery. Merely craft. And I'm using a liberal definition of the term her, where it means fully immersing yourself in something — anything at all, over years and years, in pursuit of a higher, unobtainable ideal.
The world will become a better place when we become better at helping people discover and spend time pursuing their craft. I believe that will require abandoning the capitalistic "growth is everything" mindset. Because, as Jim Nielsen beautifully phrased it:
Personally, when I say I want to grow, I mean like a tree. Not like a cancer.
Amen.