Oct 7, 2009
The secret is balance: instead of doing everything faster, do everything at the right speed. Sometimes fast. Sometimes slow. Sometimes in between…This is not a declaration of war against speed,” he explains. “Speed has helped remake our world in ways that are wonderful and liberating.” But it can also become “a kind of idolatry…Capitalism is getting too fast even for its own good, as the pressure to finish first leaves too little time for quality control” Under what Honore calls “turbo capitalism,” people exist “to serve the economy, rather than the other way around.
Carl Honore — In Praise of Slowness (via HuffPo)
Not groundbreaking, but I can read advice like this over and it never gets old because I JUST KEEP FORGETTING!
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