Chad Aaron Hall

Slow Media measure themselves in production, appearance and content against high standards of quality and stand out from their fast-paced and short-lived counterparts – by some premium interface or by an aesthetically inspiring design.

Pennycook et al. (2016b) argue that the detection of conflict with an initial intuitive response is what produces deliberative processing and consequent increases in response time. Evans & Stanovich (2013) have claimed that speed and accuracy are correlated but not central factors in what determines the distinction between intuitive and... See more

This, if you think about it, is similar to the impact of automation work we’ve seen elsewhere. Assembly lines took away the fun parts of craftsmanship regarding building a beautiful finished product. Even before that, machine tools took that away more from the machinist. Algorithmic management of warehouses in Amazon does this.

A healthy, pluralistic society is one that has space for all manner of social institutions, many of which we may not individually be fans of. Some (though by no means all) will be based upon mutual affinities that might be described as political. Inconvenient as it may be for those who desire to end all discrimination, though, there can be no... See more

From a distance, the dragon always seems unconquerable, yet the hero finds a way. In epic fantasy tales, the dragon is always symbolic — the hero defeats it by overcoming some inner sense of limitation, which they had believed was a permanent flaw.

Thus, the neurotic tendency to dwell on things might be the very root of creativity and problem solving,