The Case for Intentionally Slowing Down
I open Discord and start a message. Ten seconds in, roughly the amount of time most people take to fire off a response, the first message comes in: "Oh geez, he's still typing." I've written one sentence. I go back, reread it, edit a word. Write a second sentence. Two more messages land: "Oh my gosh." "He's STILL typing." By the time I hit send, three more people have commented on my audacity to take longer than a breath to respond. What they got wasn't seven rapid-fire half-thoughts ricocheting around the channel. It was three sentences. A complete thought. One thing, said once, that actually meant something.
Keats wrote that "the excellence of every art is its intensity." In days gone by, people had to take time to write something. When they made a mistake, they rewrote it. They thought about what they wanted to say, how they wanted to...
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