Go Slow: The Importance of Ritual in Creative Work

Author: Pete Shelly
Length: 46 pages
Published: 2025

Lately, it feels like deadlines are tighter, budgets are smaller, and priorities change by the hour.
Creative work — as I’m sure other lines are — has become improv comedy: you take the loudest direction that’s shouted at you and try to come up with something on the spot. Whether it’s good or not doesn't seem to matter because someone else will shout something new by lunchtime and you’ll scurry off in that direction. “Yes and…” you’ll be caught saying, meeting after meeting.
Go Slow outlines actionable ways you can slow down, reclaim your process, and do better work.