Everything Is Fast

The future won’t be built merely by those who move fastest, but by those who remember how to stand still. Until we recover the courage to receive what we cannot produce, we will mistake velocity for vision. And we’ll keep accelerating—not toward the good, but simply away from the ground.

I began to wonder if digital scrolling was something akin to an alcohol-induced blackout: in a digital blackout, part of your day disappears into the Internet netherworld because it’s simply so unmemorable—everything unworthy of being conjured up later in life as having been a meaningful moment—that our brains simply shut off to preserve energy for