Musings on Slow Life
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmmFD2OIs_k&hidden=true
- # Intro
- It's less efficient.
- ## //re-defining productivity
- My default response, which belies even how much I've been conditioned by society to seek efficiency, is *"oh, I hear you. Once you get used to it though it doesn't feel like much effort. It's also faster to clean up!"*
- When people look at my tea and coffee setup, they ooh and they ahh, but always. Almost always however, the next thing that comes out of their mouth is: *"oh but I don't have time for this. do it like this and this at home cause it's faster."* *"It just takes too much time and energy."*
- I'm not really against optimization. And the act of optimizing is innately rewarding. But I question, as I look at my own ever-growing list of to-dos, everytime I eke out more time, am I once again going down the path of forgetting to be human?
- Or should we flip it? That being productive is NOT good. Harms the environment etc.
- **When in reality, I don't care that it takes longer. I WANT it to take longer. That's kind of the whole point of brewing for me. to help me slow down.**
- Work can wait.
Life can't.
- I enjoy the space it helps me make in life. A breather.
- **"The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the grit of paying attention."**-*Julia Cameron*
- it takes me 2 minutes instead of 10 seconds to grind coffee? Great! That's 1m 50s I'm NOT working.
- I want it to take up time in my life, that's how I draw out the experience. I can feel the grinding of the coffee, smell the grounds as it brews... in that moment, I'm attentive, I'm connected.
- Immersing, even drowning yourself in the process is a lovely feeling. Psychology calls it flow.
- And now I can't help but think, maybe we need a new metric for measuring time well spent. Not by quantity of tasks done but quality if experience
- ## //stop trying to finish everything
- I stopped trying to finish everything. What gets done gets done.
What can be finished will get finished
- Once you've done something you know how long it does go on for
- And you can plan around it
- But if much of life is stuff you don't really have an idea of how long the tasks take. Like me right now...it's easy to plan poorly and feel like a failure.
Musings on Slow Life
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmmFD2OIs_k&hidden=true
- # Intro
- It's less efficient.
- ## //re-defining productivity
- My default response, which belies even how much I've been conditioned by society to seek efficiency, is *"oh, I hear you. Once you get used to it though it doesn't feel like much effort. It's also faster to clean up!"*
- When people look at my tea and coffee setup, they ooh and they ahh, but always. Almost always however, the next thing that comes out of their mouth is: *"oh but I don't have time for this. do it like this and this at home cause it's faster."* *"It just takes too much time and energy."*
- I'm not really against optimization. And the act of optimizing is innately rewarding. But I question, as I look at my own ever-growing list of to-dos, everytime I eke out more time, am I once again going down the path of forgetting to be human?
- Or should we flip it? That being productive is NOT good. Harms the environment etc.
- **When in reality, I don't care that it takes longer. I WANT it to take longer. That's kind of the whole point of brewing for me. to help me slow down.**
- Work can wait.
Life can't.
- I enjoy the space it helps me make in life. A breather.
- **"The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the grit of paying attention."**-*Julia Cameron*
- it takes me 2 minutes instead of 10 seconds to grind coffee? Great! That's 1m 50s I'm NOT working.
- I want it to take up time in my life, that's how I draw out the experience. I can feel the grinding of the coffee, smell the grounds as it brews... in that moment, I'm attentive, I'm connected.
- Immersing, even drowning yourself in the process is a lovely feeling. Psychology calls it flow.
- And now I can't help but think, maybe we need a new metric for measuring time well spent. Not by quantity of tasks done but quality if experience
- ## //stop trying to finish everything
- I stopped trying to finish everything. What gets done gets done.
What can be finished will get finished
- Once you've done something you know how long it does go on for
- And you can plan around it
- But if much of life is stuff you don't really have an idea of how long the tasks take. Like me right now...it's easy to plan poorly and feel like a failure.