What Ben Kuhn thinks about patience

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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1 Jul 2020

Our readingImpatience is a good thing: it is the best way to get faster at things, and being fast correlates strongly with being effective.

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.

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