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Addicted to Speed
Perhaps the greatest challenge of the Slow movement will be to fix our neurotic relationship with time itself.
Carl Honore • In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
As the world gets faster and faster, we come to believe that our happiness, or our financial survival, depends on our being able to work and move and make things happen at superhuman speed. We grow anxious about not keeping up—so to quell the anxiety, to try to achieve the feeling that our lives are under control, we move faster. But this only gene... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
A category mistake—erroneously assigning to something a quality or action that is properly attributable only to things of another category—is behind the frequent, but deeply mistaken, conclusion that in this new, electronically enabled world everything can, and will, move much faster.[36] Information and connections do so, and so does the adoption
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Speed is essential. Beyond tech speed, I can recognise other types of speed, though I'm unsure how many there are.
Here are a few ideas:
Tech speed – Efficiency in digital processing, communication, process reproduction, raw calculation. No need to think.
Cheetah speed – Raw, biological speed; physical speed at its peak. Evolutionary speed.
Human speed