Speed is a constraint, not a value. We treat it as the latter constantly — faster shipping, faster iteration, faster everything — but the most durable work often comes from processes that are deliberately slow.
You cannot rush understanding. You can rush everything around it, but the moment when a thing becomes clear cannot be scheduled.
Slow does not mean low output. It means time enough to notice what is wrong before it is shipped. Time enough to change your mind. Time enough for the second thought, which is usually better than the first.
The projects I have worked on that moved fastest were not the ones that shipped the most value. They were the ones that generated the most cleanup work afterward. Speed consumed by rework is not speed at all.
There is a pace that feels right for the kind of work where quality compounds. Not slow for its own sake. Slow enough to do it once instead of three times.