Hurry Slowly - The Act of Doing Nothing

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Hi there-

I've been "wintering" these past few weeks as I meditate on new projects for the coming year. Hence the quiet on this newsletter front.

I've also been tuning up my RESET course for a relaunch — experimenting with new community-building approaches and adding about 4 hours of new content in the form of 50 on-demand Q&A videos.

If you'd like to learn how to work in a more sustainable, intentional way, RESET is now open for registration through Feb 19th. I'd love to have you join. : )
 
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Decolonizing design. A fascinating interview with design anthropologist Dori Tunstall: “The underlying relational pattern of our contemporary technologies, especially as we move more towards artificial intelligences, is to find a way to maintain the extraction of labor that makes your life better, but to avoid paying any person or seeing any person or interacting with any person to provide those things.”

Covid lockdowns driving "post-traumatic growth." A small study out of Great Britain begins to confirm what we already intuitively know. That being forced to go slower this past year has caused many of us to reconsider our values: "22% described feeling a greater appreciation for life, involving the re-assessment of their personal values and priorities and the opportunity to 'reconsider what's really important'." How we hold onto this awareness and plant the seeds for a new world is my current question.

How to work through a coup. Anne Helen Petersen on just how bad our obsession with optimization has gotten: “This is the black heart of productivity culture: the maniacal focus on the individual capacity to produce elides the external forces that could (and should!) short-circuit our concentration and work ethic. A hyper-productive person isn’t necessarily a focused person so much as a person who’s often hardened or excused themselves from the needs of their immediate and greater community.”

A tale of two ecosystems: Spotify vs Bandcamp. This is a great story on the completely different mindsets and models that these two music companies work with. One, that takes the idea that "music is healing" and serving artists as its core conviction, the other that capturing as much of your "audio attention" as possible is the most important thing. 

Pay attention to where you pay attention. A great profile of theoretical physicist Michael Goldhaber, the prophet who predicted a great deal of our Internet problems decades ago: “Our abilities to pay attention are limited. Not so our abilities to receive it. The value of true modesty or humility is hard to sustain in an attention economy.”

On immunity: an inoculation. I just finished Eula Biss' 2014 book on vaccination, motherhood, and medicine, which was originally written in response to the possible H1N1 pandemic of that moment, but reads like it was written yesterday. Useful context for this point in time.

Pricing on a sliding scale. I've been exploring different approaches to sliding scale pricing and this podcast interview with breathwork teacher Jennifer Patterson was illuminating.

+ Love this revolutionary: “The act of doing nothing serves as support."

+ Fun facts: 52 things I learned in 2020.

+ Reader share: Plodding vs bursting.

💓
Jocelyn
 
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The artwork is from: Kalina Muhova, who's based in Bologna, Italy.

Link shout-outs to: Exponential View, Simran Sethi, Janet Alexandersson, and Dense Discovery.

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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I created the online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, and I host Hurry Slowly — a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down.
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