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6th December 2025

If you work slowly, you will be more likely to stick with your slightly obsolete work. You know that professor who spent seven years preparing lecture notes twenty years ago? He is not going to throw them away and start again, as that would be a new seven-year project. So he will keep teaching using aging lecture notes until he retires and someone finally updates the course.

Daniel Lemire, Why speed matters

This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 6th December 2025.