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The Slow Productivity Movement: Why Doing Less Is Suddenly Cool

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Three months ago, a group of practitioners published a quiet result that, in hindsight, marks a real inflection point on the slow productivity movement: why doing less is suddenly cool.

What's changing

The shift began quietly. A handful of teams, working in parallel and mostly unaware of each other, arrived at similar conclusions: the old approach optimized for a constraint that no longer binds. Hardware got cheaper. Models got smaller.…

Why it matters

Three quiet trends are converging: cheaper compute, better tooling, and a new generation of operators who grew up with these tools as defaults. Each was a slow burn on its own. Together they compound, and that compounding is what most…

What to do about it

Three quiet trends are converging: cheaper compute, better tooling, and a new generation of operators who grew up with these tools as defaults. Each was a slow burn on its own. Together they compound, and that compounding is what most…

The takeaway

If you take one thing away: the asymmetry has flipped. The risk used to be over-investing. Now it's under-investing while convincing yourself you're being prudent.

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Three months ago, a group of practitioners published a quiet result that, in hindsight, marks a real inflection point on the slow…

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