going slow
calmness is a superpower and why we need to slow the fuck down.
Keely Adler and
going slow
In contemporary society, our adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds
-shared by David Horne
He offers a thought experiment: what if the brief to design a new train connection was given to Disney instead of railway engineers? The latter immediately focuses on speed, time, distance and capacity. With Disney, the goal wouldn’t be to shave minutes off the journey. They may ask a different question: “How do we make the train journey so... See more
311 / The fallacy of faster
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein
wait but don’t.
The Imperfectionist: How to choose sanity now
ckarchive.comin the end, striving toward sanity never works. you have to operate from sanity instead. 💯
Now I’m trying really hard to slow down. Pay complete attention. Lately I’ve internalized there’s something so sacred about focus, rather than constantly deliberating between monitor screens and plans and side hustles. Depth rather than breadth. In a world that is increasingly accelerating — social media eyeballs and immediate gratification and a
... See morein praise of slowing down
Speed and efficiency are the promise of modernity. But speed and efficiency are all destination and no journey. And it is journey that gives life meaning.
How do we reclaim the joy of doing something slow and difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest? If more effort is wasted doing things that don’t matter (doomscrolling for hours)... See more
How do we reclaim the joy of doing something slow and difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest? If more effort is wasted doing things that don’t matter (doomscrolling for hours)... See more
in praise of slowing down
nicoles.substack.com
On shortcuts and longcuts
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