Hi Friends-
I'm back with another brand-new episode of Hurry Slowly this week, in conversation with Priya Parker, the deeply thoughtful author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. But this isn't a conversation about work meetings, it's about how to create gatherings that truly transform people.
We touch on the importance of having a strong vision that allows you to include (and exclude) people with intention, the value of setting boundaries that make people feel safe, and the mechanics of making space for vulnerability and intimacy.
It's one of my favorite episodes to date. Listen to "How to Have Transformative Gatherings."
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The pleasure and pain of speed. A must-read on time, memory, and our ever-increasing need for speed: "Faced with a scarcity of time, we react by doing more things, faster, or multitasking. This increasingly dense collection of smaller, decontextualized events bump up against each other, but lack overall connection or meaning. What is the temporal experience of reading several hundred Tweets versus one article, and what is remembered afterwards?"
The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations. I agree with this whole-heartedly: "At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them, and to the broader world, may be enormous."
Is Alexa dangerous? Strong recommend on this deeply thoughtful piece from The Atlantic about how voice technology is changing our behavior: "We're talking about a change in status for the technology itself—an upgrade, as it were. When we converse with our personal assistants, we bring them closer to our own level. Their speech makes us treat them as if they had a mind."
Free solo. The new documentary on rock climber Alex Honnold's free solo climb of El Capitan is a stunning meditation on a person obsessed with performance. As one of his fellow climbers describes it: "Free soloing El Cap is like doing an Olympic gold medal sporting event, where if you don't get the gold medal, you die."
+ Super-Nintendo, constraints, and creativity.
+ Where our feelings live in the body.
+ 5.6 hours a day on email.
+ Learning without doing.
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The clever illustrations are from: Roberto Parada for The Atlantic article I cited on voice technology.
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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I host Hurry Slowly — a podcast 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. | | | | |
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