Re: [silk] Slow thinking

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Very interesting point. The part that had the most resonance is "Your first > reaction is usually outdated". > > Thoughts? An important point to note, what is being appreciated here is not slow thinking, but high quality thinking.

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 9:06 AM Nani wrote: Speaking of slow thinking, I’m reminded of the ultimate slow conversation > -- the lost art of letter writing. Yep, “snail mail”! There was a strange > and pleasurable sense of anticipation in waiting for, receiving, and then > opening that envelope

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

20:09 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Cc: silklist Subject: Re: [silk] Slow thinking I too prefer asynchronous communication over "real-time" & email over over slack, etc. For various reasons for the past year or so I've been either lurking on Silklist or just ignoring it. But I've g

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

Since we talked about Daniel Kahneman, I found this piece useful. Casts a shadow on *Thinking Fast and Slow-- *especially where the book talks about

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

I too prefer asynchronous communication over "real-time" & email over over slack, etc. For various reasons for the past year or so I've been either lurking on Silklist or just ignoring it. But I've got all the messages archived, so if I want to get a sense of what y'all have been talking

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

American politics seems to put a hefty premium on the “fast spoken” style and I think a significant portion of people make up their mind about candidates from debates and town halls trusting the oration and sound bite version of people rather than the research and actual plans. It also, to some

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

"Slow" and "fast" might be better words for what we used to call "literate" and "oral" communication styles*. Although written communication one thousand years ago was almost always the result of reflection and composition, while spoken communication was almost always extemporaneous if not

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

Almost the opposite happens to me (which could well be because my thinking is shallow) but I tend to be satisfied with my first response. There are exceptions of course. Complex questions. Questions that have lots of nuance. Questions the answers to which change dramatically based on little known

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

I'll take a couple of days...

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

Until now I felt that my ability to come up with a cogent (and sometimes extremely witty) response several hours later was an example of my being "slow on the uptake" (in the derogatory sense that this phrase is used).Glad that it is being validated now...as is my general inability to "multitask"

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

Point is: When you’re less impulsive and more deliberate like this, it can > be a little inconvenient for other people, but that’s OK. > > Someone asks you a question. You don’t need to answer. You can say, “I > don’t know,” and take your time to answer after thinking. > > Things happen. Someone

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

Is it merely coincidental that this topic is also on Anand Sanwal's email today (CBInsights) where he mentions the following: I’m always impressed by people at our events who can take a question and spit out a really cogent, crisp, and thoughtful answer. But maybe those folks aren’t the norm?

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

Agreed 100%. Echoes of Daniel Kahneman’s work here on fast and slow thinking which has incidentally informed a lot of my work in the disinformation space. There’s also Paul Salopek’s Slow Journalism (he’s walking through India presently for Nationals Geographic) and even apparently a Slow Fashion

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 at 11:08, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 10:35 AM Biju Chacko wrote: > > Let me get back to you on this. > > > > I was betting that either you or Gabin would be the first to respond with > something like this. > I would have but he replied before I had a

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 10:35 AM Biju Chacko wrote: Let me get back to you on this. > I was betting that either you or Gabin would be the first to respond with something like this. Udhay

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

Let me get back to you on this. -- b On Thu 9 Aug, 2018, 10:29 Udhay Shankar N, wrote: > Very interesting point. The part that had the most resonance is "Your first > reaction is usually outdated". > > Thoughts? > > Udhay > > https://sivers.org/slow > > I’m a very slow thinker > 2016-08-26 > >

[silk] Slow thinking

Very interesting point. The part that had the most resonance is "Your first reaction is usually outdated". Thoughts? Udhay https://sivers.org/slow I’m a very slow thinker 2016-08-26 When a friend says something interesting to me, I usually don’t have a reaction until much later. When someone