Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?

In a world of fast content incentivized by advertising-based attention-hacking business models, being slow and considered is a superpower.

We’re made so uneasy by the experience of allowing reality to unfold at its own speed that when we’re faced with a problem, it feels better to race toward a resolution—any resolution, really, so long as we can tell ourselves we’re “dealing with” the situation, thereby maintaining the feeling of being in control. So we snap at our partners, rather t... See more