{"objectType":"Post","type":"Article","actorId":"@fanzinepress@kwln.social","actor":{"id":"@fanzinepress@kwln.social","type":"Person","name":"Fanzine Press","icon":"https://kwln.social/images/user.svg","url":"https://kwln.social/users/%40fanzinepress%40kwln.social","inbox":"https://kwln.social/users/%40fanzinepress%40kwln.social/inbox","outbox":"https://kwln.social/users/%40fanzinepress%40kwln.social/outbox","server":"@kwln.social"},"title":"In Defense of Slowness","body":"<p>Speed is not a virtue. It feels like one because we have collectively agreed to treat it as one. But pace and quality are not the same thing, and the conflation of the two has done considerable damage.</p>\n<p>The things I care most about took a long time. The book I've read most often took its author seven years. The record I return to was recorded over four sessions spread across a careful week. The city I love best was built over centuries by people with no interest in optimizing their contribution.</p>\n<p>Fast is a strategy, not an end. It is the right strategy for some things — logistics, emergency response, certain kinds of communication. It is the wrong strategy for most art, most design, most thinking, most relationships. The application of fast to things that require slow is one of the defining mistakes of the current period.</p>\n<p>I am not arguing for slowness as a lifestyle brand. I am arguing for it as a recognition that some things cannot be rushed without being ruined, and that the pressure to rush them anyway is worth resisting.</p>\n<p>The best defense of slowness is usually the thing you made by being slow.</p>\n","wordCount":196,"charCount":1113,"replyCount":0,"reactCount":0,"reactPreview":null,"reactSummary":null,"shareCount":0,"image":"file:6a45c5507f6ed5545befa194@kwln.social","attachments":[],"tags":[],"createdAt":"2026-07-02T01:56:32.366Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-02T01:56:32.373Z","id":"post:6a45c5507f6ed5545befa197@kwln.social","url":"https://kwln.social/posts/post:6a45c5507f6ed5545befa197@kwln.social","server":"@kwln.social","summary":"<p>Speed is not a virtue. It feels like one because we have collectively agreed to treat it as one. But pace and quality are not the same thing, and the conflation of the two has done considerable damage.</p>\n<p>The things I care most about took a long time. The book I've read most often took its author seven years. The record I return to was recorded over four sessions spread across a careful week. The city I love best was built over centuries by people with no interest in optimizing their contribution.</p>\n","textPreview":"Speed is not a virtue. It feels like one because we have collectively agreed to treat it as one…","signature":"GbTzfeAtpzoWHLfZz1grQpefNKGdEfRcTTgcOj9MIwEXCyzjxD1LXDmbzsH9Mu0cqziW5B38uV6YPtJNSNTSN1aE/XxL/Nr/V4jmC/oM3k2l77iyj6gZcrXF+szmkx/wLYjh4rbolmn8HKVyGQJ9ebhj7CZVqS7+p02Vkg3SUfqgK7GJMCqiNrNuvtpPnJDL1mx4pTkTMyAsD/L99xaBflRna0vWlWgsasc0eiS6zdA3Cd+2Ig/PjH/isJ2aC3Oz+BzYkDhI3dtxC42bFT84V1f66sasmgoJkyMqILOD36iaeXN88FBjuMWEecI37wh6vHDUmJhHewQo3FY8g4lI6g==","canReply":false,"canReact":false,"publishedAt":"2026-07-02T01:56:32.366Z","featuredImage":"https://kwln.social/files/file:6a45c5507f6ed5545befa194@kwln.social","myReact":null,"reactCounts":[]}