It’s okay to work slowly. Thoroughly. Tangentially. Thoughtfully.

Faced with programming problems that seem to need immediate solving, cartographic deadlines, and server configuration conundrums, what motivates is usually the end-goal: the map product to be served up to the customers. Needing to get to that goal as quickly as possible isn’t everyone’s hang-up but it is mine, and might be yours too.

Giving oneself permission to pour a cup of tea, listen to slow music, and simply explore the issue for an hour or even a day provides such a richness, a broadness, of education, that it could be likened to the learning experiences absorbed when vacationing abroad rather than close to home.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. -Voltaire

 

Map credit:  Regional Food from  Capital Country Villages , by illustrator Tiffanie Brown

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A note on working slowly. https://t.co/ItV2KDYqNR

— Gretchen Peterson (@PetersonGIS) May 7, 2018

So true.

— Régis Haubourg (@RegisHaubourg) May 7, 2018

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” -Abraham Lincoln

— brandyn friedly (@brandynfriedly) May 13, 2018