Whoever authored this, please take a deep breath and a step back from capitalism, holy heck! I feel worn out just reading this.

This reads like one of those insane Linkedin posts…

Work at the speed of thought? Bro, that’s not at all possible. Like, legitimately, wtf?

He says a thesis written in two years would be better than one written in eight, therefore faster is better. Okay, a bolognese made in 6 hours is better than one made in 30 minutes, therefore slower is better. If I can use your same argument to make the opposite point, your argument is bad. Also, to be clear, if your bolognese takes less than four hours, you are wrong.

Speed as a universal metric is just silly and a downright childish oversimplification. Fuck your speed, use a relevant metric. On top of that, it has been and still is an absurd expectation from capitalists to do everything faster, and this “article” reeks of said absurd expectation.

That text is not devoid of merit. It’s true that often when my coworkers are spending an unexpectedly large amount of time on a task, it’s because they’re getting sidetracked or being too stubborn to ask for help or, as the article describes, are way overthinking something.

But.

That’s only generally a relatively minor problem; and the times when it’s a major problem are rare.

What’s a major, fundamental problem that regularly explodes in our faces is speed. Decision makers pushing for unmaintainable, barely functional crap under the excuse of pressing client deals and MVPs, and “go fast it’s just a prototype I swear” that gets shipped straight to production and never gets cleaned up.

No, slowness is not the main thing you should be focusing on.

This is probably confounded by the fact that a more capable PhD student will probably complete their work faster than a less capable student. I don’t think a less capable student rushing through their work is going to result in better output.

“Speed of thought”… hmmm… We can call it “Impulse Driven Development” I’m sure it’ll be great.