"In recent years, the Slow Movement’s popularity was rejuvenated by Carl Honoré’s 2004 book In Praise of Slow. His principle thesis was that only when we slow down and give things space can things grow. Fussing and busying about rarely makes things deeper."

#JonnyThomson, 2022

https://bigthink.com/thinking/slow-movement-philosophy/

#books #SlowCulture #SlowMovement

@appassionato @Daojoan

Thanks, @strypey

I'm following up on @laura and @aral now.

I remember the WWW before Wired magazine interrupted and took over the narrative.

Paulina Borsook wrote about that moment in "Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech" (2000).

http://www.cyberselfish.com/

As they say, if you want to change the world, change the language you use to describe it. The rest will follow.

#EFSchumacher #SmallIsBeautiful #SlowCulture #SlowSoftware

Welcome to the fediverse @mark_mcguire !

> I’ve been thinking about EF Schumacher's Small is Beautiful

I read most of this book about 20 years ago, very influential on my thinking. The permaculture principle "small and slow solutions" was not doubt inspired at least in part by Schumacher's work. I like to think of the fediverse as small and slow solutions for social media ;)

See also @laura and @aral 's work on Small Tech.

#EFSchumacher #SmallIsBeautiful #SlowCulture #SlowSoftware