My favorite links, listens, and longreads from the past week:
The key ingredient in work-life balance. This week I released the first-ever Hurry Slowly supercut, an 8-minute minisode featuring new material from Jason Fried, Austin Kleon, Wendy MacNaughton, and Kim Chambers musing on the mysteries of work-life balance.
How it became normal to ignore texts and emails. A fantastic longread that explains why “anxiety is the price of convenience” when it comes to 21st-century communication. (Ironically, I sent a long text and then spent hours worrying about it right after I read this article!)
You've got to love your material. “An artist has to have a kind of sensual relationship with her material. She has to find material she can fall in love with, or, maybe even better, she has to love the material available to her. The stuff that’s lying around.”
Why life speeds up. “The philosopher Douglas Hofstadter suggested that the acceleration of time is the result of our increasing tendency through life to package distinct experiences into bigger ‘chunks.’”
Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I host the Hurry Slowly podcast — a new show about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down — write books that will help you reclaim your time, and give uncommonly useful talks.
