Slow Living

In the past few years, there's been a series of articles talking about how Gen-Z is embracing "slow living", i.e. making more time for hobbies and less hustling. Today, I read an excerpt from an essay by Carl Honoré in The Analog Sea Review that shows that this is not a new phenomenon. Honoré cited debates from the Industrial Revolution about how "chopping up time into rigid blocks" can make life less humane. Emerging in the late 1700s, the Romantic movement opposed many elements of the modern culture of hustle. Going further back, even the Romans complained about sundials and having to get up at a precise time in the morning.

- Marc