This post is not really making any argument for slow, just saying that some good things happen slowly - though he doesn't actually specify a timescale, rendering the word "slow" meaningless anyway. If you could have the things that he describes as being good quickly (i.e. you get them immediately, not that they have short duration), I imagine you'd be ecstatic. If you could have beautiful, hand-crafted quality furniture made in 15 minutes, wouldn't you prefer that to a longer process, all else equal?<p>To try and extract some actual useful information from this collection of meaningless platitudes, I'd say that there's a point to be made here that different things happen on different timescales. Building relationships may take considerably more time than a few development cycles, etc. Recognizing what's a reasonable timescale for each part of your business/life/project and considering the costs you'd pay for trying to accelerate them is probably not a bad thing to do.