the inconvenience of convenience
sari and
the inconvenience of convenience
Technology increasingly robs us of the mystical in our lives. Not everything needs to be fast and available and convenient. I love ideas and products that reveal themselves slowly - more whisper than scream.
-Dennis Paphitis
đ slow and soft
going slow, taking my sweet time and reminding myself to donât feed into a culture of urgency. there is no need to rush
Barbara ⢠25 cards
Myself and people my age have been trained under the illusion that we can effectively eliminate any and all friction from our lives. We can work from home, Amazon prime everything we need, swipe through a limitless array of mediocre dates, text our therapist, and have a person go to the grocery store for us when we donât feel like it, all while
... See more
Todayâs cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We are at risk of
... See moreTim Wu ⢠Opinion | The Tyranny of Convenience - The New York Times
I think there are things in life that you want to telescope and compress and accelerate and streamline and make more efficient. And there are things where the value is precisely in the inefficiency, in the time spent, in the pain endured, in the effort you have to invest. And I donât think weâre going to differentiate between those things. Because... See more
Adam Grant ⢠Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
