Comments on: Let’s take it slow, buddy http://www.pdxjoe.net/blog/2009/12/lets-take-it-slow-buddy/ JOE WILSON: journalist | publisher | columnist | social media consultant | Becky & Joe Show producer & co-host Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:57:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Todd Sieling http://www.pdxjoe.net/blog/2009/12/lets-take-it-slow-buddy/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Todd Sieling Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:05:08 +0000 http://www.pdxjoe.net/blog/?p=361#comment-176 Joe, thanks so much for taking a look at the manifesto, and especially for sharing your own take on being conscious of pace. I like that you touch on the consumerist lifestyle, where companies rush to first state that we need instant gratification and then step in to provide it. That myth, that faster is always better, often short-circuits our decision-making and leaves us with less than we bargained for and wondering why. Being conscious of how fast we're being asked to act and how fast we need to is a great step in living better. I'm really grateful for your post as I hadn't really hooked up those ideas before, but they seem a natural fit. Joe, thanks so much for taking a look at the manifesto, and especially for sharing your own take on being conscious of pace. I like that you touch on the consumerist lifestyle, where companies rush to first state that we need instant gratification and then step in to provide it. That myth, that faster is always better, often short-circuits our decision-making and leaves us with less than we bargained for and wondering why. Being conscious of how fast we’re being asked to act and how fast we need to is a great step in living better.

I’m really grateful for your post as I hadn’t really hooked up those ideas before, but they seem a natural fit.

]]> By: Bill Lascher http://www.pdxjoe.net/blog/2009/12/lets-take-it-slow-buddy/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Bill Lascher Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:00:27 +0000 http://www.pdxjoe.net/blog/?p=361#comment-133 Joe, thanks first of all for the references. More importantly, thanks for saying this, and saying it articulately. As you recognize, I can't deny I use twitter (or facebook or many other Web tools for that matter). More and more often I realize how disappointing these tools are, though. One small example: I used to pride myself on knowing the birthdays of people I cared about. It was up to me to set some sort of recognition of who I valued, whose birthday I remembered. Now that FB knows birthdays I'm told days ahead of time whose birthdays are coming up, and then there's a public cavalcade of greetings. It's not so much that I don't get to be the sole person to say "happy birthday," it's that I want to do so from my heart, and I want those who greet me to do the same. It's a mixed blessing, it's nice to be recognized on your birthday, but is it recognition if those greeting you have been told it's your birthday? That's a simplistic, somewhat off topic example, but I believe it illustrates the ease with which we disconnect ourselves from getting to know the world around us. And, can we quantifiably claim our lives are better off with such technology? Did professionals 30 years ago not get things done? Did the world not spin? I believe it did. And yes, it can continue to spin now, and it will continue to spin differently. That is why I don't completely reject technology. I'll use it when it's there, but I'm really wondering just how valuable it is to me when, as I comment on this post, I'm already wondering "isn't this a comment? shouldn't it be short and sweet, not long and drawn out like this?" Joe, thanks first of all for the references. More importantly, thanks for saying this, and saying it articulately.

As you recognize, I can’t deny I use twitter (or facebook or many other Web tools for that matter). More and more often I realize how disappointing these tools are, though.

One small example: I used to pride myself on knowing the birthdays of people I cared about. It was up to me to set some sort of recognition of who I valued, whose birthday I remembered. Now that FB knows birthdays I’m told days ahead of time whose birthdays are coming up, and then there’s a public cavalcade of greetings. It’s not so much that I don’t get to be the sole person to say “happy birthday,” it’s that I want to do so from my heart, and I want those who greet me to do the same. It’s a mixed blessing, it’s nice to be recognized on your birthday, but is it recognition if those greeting you have been told it’s your birthday?

That’s a simplistic, somewhat off topic example, but I believe it illustrates the ease with which we disconnect ourselves from getting to know the world around us.

And, can we quantifiably claim our lives are better off with such technology? Did professionals 30 years ago not get things done? Did the world not spin? I believe it did.

And yes, it can continue to spin now, and it will continue to spin differently. That is why I don’t completely reject technology. I’ll use it when it’s there, but I’m really wondering just how valuable it is to me when, as I comment on this post, I’m already wondering “isn’t this a comment? shouldn’t it be short and sweet, not long and drawn out like this?”

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]]> By: Bob Laver http://www.pdxjoe.net/blog/2009/12/lets-take-it-slow-buddy/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Bob Laver Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:18:00 +0000 http://www.pdxjoe.net/blog/?p=361#comment-124 Joe: Good, thoughtful piece!! I know from my own experience that my best work, whatever length has been something that has been brewing long in my head and heart and continues brewing through the keyboard. If we make commments off the top of our heads, that might be all the brains people get. Joe:
Good, thoughtful piece!! I know from my own experience that my best work, whatever length has been something that has been brewing long in my head and heart and continues brewing through the keyboard.

If we make commments off the top of our heads, that might be all the brains people get.

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