Convenience
Convenience, in other words, makes things easy, but without regard to whether easiness is truly what’s most valuable in any given context.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Convenience has the ability to make other options unthinkable. Once you have used a washing machine, laundering clothes by hand seems irrational, even if it might be cheaper. After you have experienced streaming television, waiting to see a show at a prescribed hour seems silly, even a little undignified. To resist convenience — not to own a
... See moreTim Wu • Opinion | The Tyranny of Convenience - The New York Times
That, I think, is the power of ceremony: it marries the mundane to the sacred.
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
“I think inefficiency is pretty good.”
-Liana Finck’s chat with Jason Chatfield re: why the hot dogs didn’t taste as good after a company moved their operations into a brand-new state-of-the-art facility.
