This was the first article I received to read (I had just installed Read Up) and I think it was a very fitting article. It was very insightful, because I didn't quite realize how much fast media and fast news I was intaking without actually sitting down and informing myself on what is actually happening. I am excited to read more!
It's jarring to take a step back and think about how out of balance and dysfunctional certain behaviors and experiences that we have become accustomed to can be. It looks like both Delayed Gratification and Tortoise Media offer some of their content for free and so many of the articles look amazing. Can't wait to check them out!
A MUST slow read! Really well written and informative. The evidence is out about information overload and the results of skimming and not being truly informed. Now what to do? I LOVE the idea of The Slow Media Movement. Just like The Slow Food Movement that encourages us to chew our food and practice mindfulness while eating to fully “digest” and assimilate our food, such is the case with reading. As this article encourages, we must be willing to bring our best selves to the act of being informed. How can we not want to live all of life from that platform? If we are truly concerned about our planet, our environment, our democracy, the future for the coming generations, how can we not be willing to start with ourselves? It’s a must. It’s a conscious decision to resist the speed and volume at which we receive information. We must be part of the solution and to do that, we must be our best selves, our most informed selves. I have gotten off FaceBook and have not looked back. It feels like the relief from a pestering, spoiled child. Give it a time out and see for yourself. Readup has broadened my horizons, opened me to not only more information, but more caring, more compassion, more inspiration. I’m more. Slow is more and so worth cultivating. In my opinion, it’s the only way out of this technological crisis of becoming less.
Wow. Articles like this make me feel crazy. Good crazy and bad crazy. Read this piece and you'll understand exactly what I mean.
Three years ago, long before Trump was even running for office, my friend and I began to lay the groundwork for what would eventually become Readup. On the one hand, it feels like a lifetime ago. On the other hand, it feels like yesterday. There have been ups and downs along the way, higher highs and lower lows than I’m able to describe in words, spoken or written or typed. But along the way, what has not changed is this: the urgency of what we’re doing and the obviousness and inevitability of our solution: a platform for deep, focused reading.
That’s the good crazy. It’s like hearing a patient describe the exact symptoms for a disease you’ve cured. Point by point, as the author described this issue that plagues individuals and society, I kept thinking check! check! check! fixed! fixed! fixed! We really do have this problem in a choke hold, a hog-tie. It’s gagged and bound and stuffed in the back of a beat-up Cadillac that we’re about to drive over the edge of a cliff.
I’ve opted out of the attention economy. I’m free. It feels damn good. Now it’s time to free the rest of the world. That brings me to the “bad crazy” part, the part where I’m not sure if I’m just some ranting, crazy lunatic. Because if it really is this obvious, why aren't we huge yet? It’s been hard to get the message out, to stick the landing. It’s one thing that Michael Luo gets it, but it’s a whole different story to try get everyone, everywhere to get it. But I have faith.
I spent the entire day yesterday emailing journalists about who we are, what we’re doing and why it matters. I feel like a scientist running around in the midst of a zombie apocalypse with the cure to the zombie disease, struggling to get people to pay enough attention to take the damn medicine. The ironies pile high because you need to have enough attention to read articles like this to even know that you're infected.
Anyway, our time will come. I know it. Going slow is part of the process, especially for something like this. The QUEST continues. And I need another coffee.
We need to slow down..and read to understand and absorb what we read. Need a rethink.
This was the first article I received to read (I had just installed Read Up) and I think it was a very fitting article. It was very insightful, because I didn't quite realize how much fast media and fast news I was intaking without actually sitting down and informing myself on what is actually happening. I am excited to read more!
It's jarring to take a step back and think about how out of balance and dysfunctional certain behaviors and experiences that we have become accustomed to can be. It looks like both Delayed Gratification and Tortoise Media offer some of their content for free and so many of the articles look amazing. Can't wait to check them out!
A MUST slow read! Really well written and informative. The evidence is out about information overload and the results of skimming and not being truly informed. Now what to do? I LOVE the idea of The Slow Media Movement. Just like The Slow Food Movement that encourages us to chew our food and practice mindfulness while eating to fully “digest” and assimilate our food, such is the case with reading. As this article encourages, we must be willing to bring our best selves to the act of being informed. How can we not want to live all of life from that platform? If we are truly concerned about our planet, our environment, our democracy, the future for the coming generations, how can we not be willing to start with ourselves? It’s a must. It’s a conscious decision to resist the speed and volume at which we receive information. We must be part of the solution and to do that, we must be our best selves, our most informed selves. I have gotten off FaceBook and have not looked back. It feels like the relief from a pestering, spoiled child. Give it a time out and see for yourself. Readup has broadened my horizons, opened me to not only more information, but more caring, more compassion, more inspiration. I’m more. Slow is more and so worth cultivating. In my opinion, it’s the only way out of this technological crisis of becoming less.
Wow. Articles like this make me feel crazy. Good crazy and bad crazy. Read this piece and you'll understand exactly what I mean.
Three years ago, long before Trump was even running for office, my friend and I began to lay the groundwork for what would eventually become Readup. On the one hand, it feels like a lifetime ago. On the other hand, it feels like yesterday. There have been ups and downs along the way, higher highs and lower lows than I’m able to describe in words, spoken or written or typed. But along the way, what has not changed is this: the urgency of what we’re doing and the obviousness and inevitability of our solution: a platform for deep, focused reading.
That’s the good crazy. It’s like hearing a patient describe the exact symptoms for a disease you’ve cured. Point by point, as the author described this issue that plagues individuals and society, I kept thinking check! check! check! fixed! fixed! fixed! We really do have this problem in a choke hold, a hog-tie. It’s gagged and bound and stuffed in the back of a beat-up Cadillac that we’re about to drive over the edge of a cliff.
I’ve opted out of the attention economy. I’m free. It feels damn good. Now it’s time to free the rest of the world. That brings me to the “bad crazy” part, the part where I’m not sure if I’m just some ranting, crazy lunatic. Because if it really is this obvious, why aren't we huge yet? It’s been hard to get the message out, to stick the landing. It’s one thing that Michael Luo gets it, but it’s a whole different story to try get everyone, everywhere to get it. But I have faith.
I spent the entire day yesterday emailing journalists about who we are, what we’re doing and why it matters. I feel like a scientist running around in the midst of a zombie apocalypse with the cure to the zombie disease, struggling to get people to pay enough attention to take the damn medicine. The ironies pile high because you need to have enough attention to read articles like this to even know that you're infected.
Anyway, our time will come. I know it. Going slow is part of the process, especially for something like this. The QUEST continues. And I need another coffee.