style: go back to work

MyNameIsTrez · MyNameIsTrez · commit 1aafda2dabc1 · 2026-05-23T00:11:42.000+02:00
diff --git a/_posts/2026-05-22-slow-is-smooth-smooth-is-fast.md b/_posts/2026-05-22-slow-is-smooth-smooth-is-fast.md
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ That embarrassment is not about the work taking long; it is about feeling like t
 
 You may see a colleague close tickets quickly and assume that speed is what competence looks like, so you start optimising for looking fast rather than for craft. Time estimates make this worse, reinforcing the idea that how long you spend on something is a measure of your ability rather than a fact about the problem's difficulty.
 
-So when you next feel yourself rushing, ask whether the deadline is real or imagined. And if you are in a position to set estimates or review work, ask whether you are accidentally rewarding speed over craft.
+So when you next feel yourself rushing, ask whether the deadline is real or self-imposed. If it is self-imposed, the imagined faster version of yourself is not a standard to meet; it is a distraction from the work. Put it down and go back to the problem. And if you are in a position to set estimates or review work, ask whether you are accidentally rewarding speed over craft.

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`13`	`13`	`You may see a colleague close tickets quickly and assume that speed is what competence looks like, so you start optimising for looking fast rather than for craft. Time estimates make this worse, reinforcing the idea that how long you spend on something is a measure of your ability rather than a fact about the problem's difficulty.`
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`15`		`-So when you next feel yourself rushing, ask whether the deadline is real or imagined. And if you are in a position to set estimates or review work, ask whether you are accidentally rewarding speed over craft.`
	`15`	`+So when you next feel yourself rushing, ask whether the deadline is real or self-imposed. If it is self-imposed, the imagined faster version of yourself is not a standard to meet; it is a distraction from the work. Put it down and go back to the problem. And if you are in a position to set estimates or review work, ask whether you are accidentally rewarding speed over craft.`