## Bitreichcon 2022 Keynote Why SLOW matters. by Prof. Skildgaard ## Prof. Skildgaard ? _ ___/') /= =\/ /= = =\ ______ ^--|--^ |START | |______| | _____________________________| by firefly Prof. Skildgaard Professor at Slow Sciences faculty Aarhus University Denmark Website: http://onlyturtlefans.com/ ## Research Focus Research Focus: * Slowness in all activity. * How slowness benefits health, quality, environment, technical standards and sanity. ## Turtle2Human Transcript Welcome to my talk! #pause You realize, #pause I am talking slowly. #pause I am a turtle. #pause I talk slowly. ## Turtle2Human Transcript My name is Prof. Skildgaard. #pause I am a professor at Aarhus #pause University in Denmark. #pause All work at Bitreich is #pause scientifically supervised by me. ## Turtle2Human Transcript In my scientific field I research #pause how being slow and keeping things #pause slow makes things better. #pause See for example bitreich or here #pause open source, where a slow pace #pause increases longevity and surpasses #pause hypes. ## Turtle2Human Transcript The problems you have by being #pause on the top and fast will simply #pause not appear due to physics and #pause reality. ## Turtle2Human Transcript We come close to the field of daoism, #pause where "being water" is the goal. I #pause would say, "being a turtle" is the #pause goal. A turtle has principles, water #pause is used up and will end up in a sewer #pause and smell over time. ## Turtle2Human Transcript You need to stay flexible to adapt #pause to time, but you do not need to #pause react to everything. After a reaction, #pause overcome the anger and pain, so #pause you live a good life again without #pause having to think of all the bad #pause things that happned. Yout cannot #pause change them, there is only a future. ## Turtle2Human Transcript Consider your life being a huge #pause battery with a charge. Some energy #pause can be recharged, but slowly it #pause will lose charging capacity. You #pause fast lose charging capacity by #pause draining too much in a short time. #pause So be slow in decharging and be #pause wise about your charging cycle. #pause I had to eat a cabbage leaf to hold #pause this presentation too! ## Turtle2Human Transcript Why I joined Bitreich was #pause because my fellow professor #pause Anders Damsgaard, a professor #pause of geology, found me on #pause a side street while I was #pause doing a decharging science research #pause experiment, which nearly failed. #pause Anders saved the experiment #pause (and me) with a tasty cabbage #pause leaf. #pause Please see today's talk #pause on the arctic vault for #pause what he is doing. ## Turtle2Human Transcript Since people here are so thankful #pause and funny, I decided to stay. Well, #pause I cannot really run away and I get #pause fresh food every day. So why not? #pause I even got a website for free. #pause Please visit onlyturtlefans.com and #pause send it to turtles you know. #pause I really need a wife. ## Turtle2Human Transcript This should be a teaching to you: #pause When life gives you a cabbage leaf, #pause eat it and keep to the person who #pause repeatedly gives you more cabbage #pause leaves without asking for a return. #pause Back to science. ## Turtle2Human Transcript When we keep things slowly evolving #pause and do not base our development model #pause on fast output with no quality #pause requirement, we end up in misery. See #pause all of those systemd and Microsoft #pause users. Poor fellow animals. You #pause humans are simply animals with #pause a different name! ## Turtle2Human Transcript How about gopher? Some of my best #pause friends are gophers and I like them. #pause Once I got invited to a gopherhole, #pause but could not make it on time. I #pause called him back, that I had to wait #pause at some red light for too long. #pause But away from my personal things. ## Turtle2Human Transcript Gopher is in slow science definitions #pause superior to the web. By not having #pause to keep up with demands of people not #pause used to the slowness doctrine, gopher #pause can survive for many centuries and #pause could even surpass the web. #pause The web will not like the web in the #pause future and it will be unusable, but #pause gopher is here to stay. ## Turtle2Human Transcript In another field I work together #pause with Anders Damsgaard is glaciology. #pause Glaciers are really slow. They fit to #pause my field. But you should check out #pause the software Anders writes to simulate #pause them. The slower the glaciers melt, #pause the better for you humans and all #pause animals. ## Turtle2Human Transcript That is all I want to say. #pause Since I am a turtle, I now need to #pause go back eating cabbage - slowly. #pause And to refill my energy for further #pause research. Or maybe I will simply #pause sleep, thinking about some memes. ## Turtle2Human Transcript I wish you all the best for the #pause conference. I read all the #pause transcripts beforehand, so you #pause will have fun! #pause And remember: #pause Be a turtle! ## Turtle2Human Transcript - Untranslatable eating noises -