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DIRECTION > SPEED

So much of life’s focus is geared toward speed. An obsession with the instant. Our culture and rapidly changing environment has put the onus on how quickly things are happening. Built around a combination of 24hr news cycles, social channels, the thirst for fresh content, the ubiquity of novelty; the very internetification of things … we glorify speed and seek out what’s NEW more than ever before.

We experience it ourselves constantly … A 2-day old meme is quickly scrolled past, a groundbreaking news report barely registers a blip on the radar of our attention, because another one is coming in fast with a hot take from a pundit right behind it.

Our dopamine addiction has turned us into little human microwaves – causing us to hunger after what’s instant rather than what’s actually healthy.

When we concentrate on velocity over trajectory, we do it at our peril.

Especially for those of us seen...