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Slow is smooth and smooth is fast

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In the industrial era, the people that did more stuff—faster—added more value to the world. Efficiency was the buzzword. That’s no longer the case. Now, slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. We are already bumping up on the limits of how fast we can do our work—and we will never execute faster than AI […] The post Slow is smooth and smooth is fast appeared first on Herbert Lui.
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