Move Slow and Fix Things
Philippe Beaudoin · December 8, 2025
Move slow and fix things.
I used to say the exact opposite. I used to look at all the red tape around me and see it as the sign of a society that was afraid. I felt the best way to love people was to boldly cut through the red tape and build something better.
Breaking things. And in that brief moment where people complained, building the new thing so quickly that they looked up and said: “Aaah! Yes! Why did we never think of doing it like that?”
But today? Today this feels wrong. This feels, deep inside of me, like the wrong way to love society and everyone in it.
It’s not a dismissal of the previous ideology. It’s not even a dismissal of those who cling to it today. I think ideas breathe. And it’s OK to let them. To let ideas rise and fall in different people, at a rhythm we can influence but never fully control.
Ebbs and flows. That’s what makes me feel alive. I think that’s what makes us feel alive together. A global breathing movement at all scales.
Individual humans who breathe. Loving families who split then gather together for the holidays. A planet whose colors change as it breathes through four seasons. And ideas. Ideas that slowly rise for a few decades and slowly leave the floor for the next idea to blossom.
And for me, now, when I listen to that movement deep inside of me, the idea that rises is…
Move slow and fix things.
My friend John Stokes recently wrote about every entrepreneur being a philosopher. I agree. But I feel I’m a philosopher to the point where the tag itself — entrepreneur — no longer fits me. So what is the tag I feel fits me best these days?
Rewilded.
Phil the rewilded entrepreneur. Phil the rewilded scientist.
Phil who used to move fast and break things, boldly, in the face of a society he felt was stuck in a rut… rewilded into a Phil that looks at society with love and the feeling it needs slowness. Words that heal. Gestures that bring us closer and reveal us to ourselves as the formidable loving creatures we are.
I’m moving slower than I ever have, and it feels like the perfect speed for the times.