it takes time to post

It has been months since I have posted – but that is what happens when one thinks slowly.
For three months I have nothing that I had to think about.  Three months of day-by-day life, no job, no projects to be completed, no deadlines to meet – and for much of that time, solitude.
And what is [...]

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One plus One …

I just discovered a wonderful proverb, said to be from west Africa:
If you give me an egg and I give you an egg, we each have one egg.
If you give me an idea and I give you an idea, we each have two ideas.
Of course sharing ideas is central to what slow thinking is about. [...]

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Recognition of Slow Thinking in the Slow Revolution

It is great to be noted by Carl Honoré at Slow Planet.
Carl Honoré: First impressions, and the next step….
We’ve already heard from Slow initiatives that weren’t even on our radar before. For instance, I love the sound of these Slow Thinking events in New Zealand.
Carl’s website leads with a good clarification of ’slow’:
Slow is not [...]

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David Suzuki on Slow Thinking

Dr David Suzuki has written recently on the need for revaluing time in our thinking. He reflects on the “cacophony of demands for attention” assaulting us.
… perhaps it’s time we revisit this obsession with speed. Never before has there been a greater need for some heavy thinking before action.
Suzuki comments on the role of [...]

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slow planet

New site at www.slowplanet.com. Carl Honore creating a hub for slow travel, slow design, slow sport (almost seems contradictory, but I remember enjoying a slow game of croquet at times…), and slow work. All very new and fresh but worth monitoring.

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Our brains need slow thinking and community

Steven Johnson, in his stimulating book, Emergence, offers a quote by the futurist, Ray Kurzweil to emphasis the importance of pattern formation and recognition.
Because each individual neuron is so slow, [Ray] Kurzweil explains, “we don’t have time to think too many new thoughts when we are pressed to make a decision. The human [...]

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welcome to slow thinking

So many people I met with last year were busy

busy with deadlines, and immediate demand, and deliverables and urgent things
too busy to do what they actually thought was not only important, but also more interesting – thinking.

So with a good group of people (Graeme, Jane, Paul) the ’slow thinking movement’ started.
“Movement’ may be a [...]

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