Saved by Jonathan Simcoe
How I Stopped Trying to Upgrade My Life – Backchannel
in praise of slowing down
nicoles.substack.com
More and more often, I find myself thinking about how my life would be generally more positive without the internet’s presence. This hopefulness is always immediately followed by anxiety that I won’t have access to the internet’s wealth of self-optimization knowledge. How could I give up this shrieking mass of ways to improve myself? The
... See moreNow I’m trying really hard to slow down. Pay complete attention. Lately I’ve internalized there’s something so sacred about focus, rather than constantly deliberating between monitor screens and plans and side hustles. Depth rather than breadth. In a world that is increasingly accelerating — social media eyeballs and immediate gratification and a
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