It also takes me longer to understand things and it takes me longer to get to delivery than many of my peers.

However, I have consistently noticed that the quickness comes at the price of a shallow understanding, and the delivery is also often lacking in those who move fast.

For me, I have to really grok the thing I'm focussing on. I have to internalise it somehow and build a mental model. Once I've done that I am actually faster and more productive than the ones who leap on things quicker.

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ptmcc 2 days ago | parent [-]

Me too, the hard part is showing that this slower, more methodical process is more valuable than the flashy, quick shallow approach. And it means I might have to chew on a problem for a bit before delivering anything, even a proposal or design much less a product. But for a longer time scale it does pay off.

Fortunately I've had a few good managers and business partners in my career that recognize the value, but it's far from universal and I sometimes have a hard time communicating it myself in the face of the common move fast agile culture that is so prevalent in most of tech.

	▲	MattPalmer1086 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, I have also had to have many difficult conversations with managers over the years who were worried that I wasn't going to deliver. All I could do was reassure them that this was my process; it will start slowly but will then accelerate dramatically. Once they've seen it work it gets easier of course!