David Levy gave a great talk last year over at Google. He challenged our current cultural addiction to fast time (i.e. faster=better) and argued for the importance of slow time—the type of time vital to creative thought—the time it takes to sharpen pencils, doodle, daydream, go for a stroll, sit on a park bench, etc. [...]
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Built-in Obsolescence
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In my private music lessons, I repeatedly echo several refrains of advice: “slower is faster,” “practice like a professional,” “flexibility is the prime virtue,” etc. But in addition to these aphorisms, I often remind my music students that one of my main goals is to make myself obsolete as their teacher by giving them the [...]
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