The Myth of Quality Time
Quality Time as a lens on experience design means looking for the ways we might stay. How we linger. It is being in relationship. Listening. Remembering. Witnessing each other. Sharing space. Slowing down enough to taste time.
Love embraces slowness, likely even demands it. So why are we all in such a rush?
Children, in particular, have suffered a grievous decline in just the goods that are most important to them: adult time, energy, and company. The child-rearing work that men and women and an extended family did a hundred years ago, and that women did thirty years ago, has to be done somehow by someone. The scientific moral is not that we need exper
... See moreAlison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, • The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
After people are together for a long enough time, it is perhaps the silent communication that becomes more meaningful and also more cherished.
Ada Calhoun • Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
Perhaps the greatest challenge of the Slow movement will be to fix our neurotic relationship with time itself.
Carl Honore • In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
Quality time is the thing that makes space for self-disclosure. As a husband and father, I cannot expect to sit down once a month for five minutes and ask, “how are you doing?” expecting to enjoy a relationship of intimacy, trust, and transformation. Most, if not all, the moments of profound revelation that come out in a relationship come when you
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