Paul Cilliers wrote a wonderful paper on the Importance of a certain slowness.

We are not used to slowing down. 
The current narrative glorifies speed to a pathological extent. It’s biggest selling point seems to be getting humans and machines to be more ‘productive,’ ‘efficient,’ ‘fast,’ ‘accurate,’ and other such measures that apparently justify our existence. The very exaltation of AI rests on its seeming capacity to reduce hours of work to seconds. 
Given this underlying obsessive compulsive disorder with speed, it is little wonder that when asked…
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Sonja Blignaut
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Jul 18, 2023
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Paul Cilliers wrote a wonderful paper on the Importance of a certain slowness. I wrote a reflection on it here: https://sonjablignaut.medium.com/flowing-through-time-the-need-for-a-certain-slowness-76fa6321bb0b
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Exploring our relationship with uncertainty. Enabling future fitness. Complexity nerd, Waysfinder, Artist, Scientist. https://complexityfit.com
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