On slowness

In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry—to allow things to take the time they take—is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfillment to the future.

“Inevitably,” Honore writes, “a life of hurry can become superficial. When we rush, we skim the surface, and fail to make real connections with the world or other people.” Moreover we don’t make connections with ideas. We don’t synthesize. We don’t test theories over time. We don’t play with ideas.

busyness of the better-off

we want to cook here it takes time even in the midst of cooking to say okay you're going to add that I'm going to add this da d d d da we don't really cook with a recipe so that adds a lot of creativity to it as well but it it would be a lot more efficient and sometimes even cheaper to get fast food but but we chosen to do this because it

slows us

I’m an advocate for slowness, not in the sense of dragging your feet or delaying your reaction but in the sense of scaling your perception to to perceive the events unfolding, because I’m an advocate for making change.