patience
Waiting for results: whether patience compounds into the thing that wins, or impatience is how work gets done fast.
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Robin Sloan quoted
Novelist and writer, author of Mr
Our readingThe most significant thing about AI systems is their patience and diligence, not their intelligence.
Their wordsDis­cussing these AI systems, every­body wants to talk about "intelligence", but I don't think that's the pro­foundest thing about them. Rather, I believe it's the other -ences: patience, dili­gence.
↗Dragoncatcher: 'Ask for what you want' is a key skill for the 21st centuryrobinsloan.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 9 days earlier
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Daniel W. Drezner quoted
Political scientist writing Drezner’s World on international relations
Their wordsTrump is lousy at playing a waiting game, and that's what this strategy entails
↗The Trump Administration Strategy Faildanieldrezner.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Dan Meyer quoted
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics…
Our readingPublic patience for technology that undermines community rather than strengthening it is declining.
Their wordsPeople seem to have substantially less patience nowadays for technology that tears down rather than builds up a community.
↗How to Inoculate Yourself Against Edtech Psychosisdanmeyer.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Ketan Joshi quoted
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo
Their wordsThe fundamental drivers of this change are panic and impatience, and that is what is behind the worst impacts of data centre growth, including a material risk to decarbonisation and climate action.
↗Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at allketanjoshi.co 1st of 3 in this piece
- 6 days earlier
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Ryan Holiday quoted
American author of The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy
Our readingLearning to think by writing is slow, tedious, difficult work that takes discipline and patience.
Their wordsThis is slow, tedious, difficult work. It takes discipline and patience. The hours and hours of sitting with frustration and confusion.
↗This Is The Most Important Skill You Can Have In Liferyanholiday.net
- 3 months earlier
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Arvid Kahl quoted
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold…
Our readingPatience is a competitive advantage.
Their wordsPatience, it turns out, is a competitive advantage.
↗When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Offthebootstrappedfounder.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 years earlier
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James Clear quoted
Writer on habits and decision-making
Our readingPatience is a competitive advantage.
Their wordsPatience is a competitive advantage. In a surprising number of fields, you can find success if you are simply willing to do the reasonable thing longer than most people.
- 6 months earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Our readingAgents might, like self-driving cars, not need special equipment to interact with the environment
Their wordsClarity isn't a feature when explaining bad numbers to an impatient market
- 2 years earlier
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Ben Kuhn quoted
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave
Their wordsBeing impatient is the best way to get faster at things. And across a surprising number of domains, being really fast correlates strongly with being effective.
- 6 months earlier
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Naval Ravikant quoted
Co-founder of AngelList
Their wordsWhen you do these things, do them as quickly as you can and with your full attention so you do them well. Then be patient with the results because you’re dealing with complex systems and a lot of people.
- 18 months earlier
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Will Larson quoted
Engineering executive who has led infrastructure…
Their wordsWhen falling behind, the system fix is to hire more people until the team moves into treading water.
↗Staying on the path to high performing teams.lethain.com 1st of 6 in this piece
- 115 years earlier
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W. E. B. Du Bois quoted
American scholar and civil rights leader (1868 to 1963)
Their wordsSo far as Mr. Washington preaches Thrift, Patience, and Industrial Training for the masses, we must hold up his hands and strive with him, rejoicing in his honors and glorying in the strength of this Joshua called of God and of man to lead the headless host. But so far as Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, North or South, does not rightly value the privilege and duty of voting, belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambition of our brighter minds,-so far as he, the South, or the Nation, does this,-we must unceasingly and firmly oppose them.
↗The Souls of Black Folk (1903)gutenberg.org 5th of 7 in this piece
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Harriet Martineau quoted
English social theorist and writer (1802 to 1876)
Their wordsThe charge of their own maintenance is thrown upon large numbers of women, without the requisite variety of employments having been opened to them, or the needful education imparted. A natural consequence of this is, that women are educated to consider marriage the one object in life, and therefore to be extremely impatient to secure it.
↗How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838)gutenberg.org 6th of 6 in this piece
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Voltaire quoted
French writer and public activist (1694 to 1778)
Their wordsThe Romans never knew the dreadful folly of religious wars, an abomination reserved for devout preachers of patience and humility.
↗Letters on England (1733 English edition, ed. Henry Morley, 1894)gutenberg.org 2nd of 7 in this piece
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Michel de Montaigne quoted
French essayist and philosopher (1533 to 1592)
Our readingCruelty is the most extreme of all vices
Their wordsAmongst other vices, I mortally hate cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the very extreme of all vices: nay, with so much tenderness that I cannot see a chicken’s neck pulled off without trouble, and cannot without impatience endure the cry of a hare in my dog’s teeth, though the chase be a violent pleasure.
↗Essays (tr. Charles Cotton, ed. W. C. Hazlitt, 1877)gutenberg.org 4th of 8 in this piece
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Rumi quoted
Persian Sufi mystic and poet Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207 to 1273)
Their wordsPatience will accomplish thy desire, not haste. Be patient, God knows what is best.
↗Masnavi, Book I (tr. and abridged by E. H. Whinfield)en.wikisource.org 8th of 8 in this piece
The line under a date fills as the words age, a quarter at a time: past a month, six months, a year, and three years. Empty means said within the last month; full, more than three years ago. It says when, not whether it still holds — a change of mind is marked on the claim itself.
Dashed means we only know the words existed by that date; they may be older.