"“I HAVE a little spiel I like to give about thread,” Natalie Chanin said the other day. “The ladies laugh at me and call it my Oprah moment, but here’s how it goes: It’s called loving your thread, and it’s all about talking to the thread, coaxing it to take the path of least resistance. At the crux of it, that’s what Slow Design is all about.” " NYT
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In my talk last night I used this sentence: We share respect for working hands-on with the materials of building, and that wrangling of materials, of simultaneously forcing them and flattering them sufficiently to make them submit to our idea, is something we respect both mentally and bodily.
Also, I live this "too-fast" experience every day: A 2005 study sponsored by Hewlett-Packard showed that the I.Q.s of workers who responded quickly to the constant barrage of e-mails they received during the day fell 10 points, more than double the I.Q. drop of someone smoking marijuana..
Guess I'd be better off going back to smoking pot!
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