Caffeine

Slow media promote Monotasking . Slow Media cannot be consumed casually, but provoke the full concentration of their users. As with the production of a good meal, which demands the full attention of all senses by the cook and his guests, Slow Media can only be consumed with pleasure in focused alertness.

We learn the same lessons over and over, forgetting and remembering, forget­ting and remembering. That’s not failure — it’s life! It’s being human

My general rule is when I feel the twinge of distraction or boredom or exhaustion that urges me to put down my book, I must read ten more pages. (you can of course do five, or two, or twenty, or whatever feels right.) Typically i get so re-engaged over those ten more pages that I end up reading twenty or thirty. When talking about this to my... See more

Rest is soft, or sensual. It’s massaging your own palms with your thumbs, or

touching a purring cat, or holding a warm mug of tea, or smelling flowers or

coffee beans or cut-up herbs

When stumped by a life choice, choose “enlargement” over happiness. I’m indebted to the Jungian therapist James Hollis for the insight that major personal decisions should be made not by asking, “Will this make me happy?”, but “Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me?” We’re terrible at predicting what will make us happy: the question swiftly... See more