Carl Honore praises slowness

This hypothesis must be further investigated with the greatest possible care.

I guess what the Slow Movement the purpose of the Slow Movement, or its main goal, really, is to tackle that taboo, and to say that yes, sometimes slow is not the answer, that there is such a thing as bad slow.

The invitations to write for other sites have also varied, but I should focus on a few for now, as I only write part time.

First, a number of diverse constitutional rights and fundamental rights and freedoms are at stake, which because they are closely related require very careful consideration.

In carving out a global role for the renminbi, Chinese policymakers are proceeding deliberately. In the words of the venerable Chinese proverb, they are feeling for the stones while crossing the river.

With the Director of Public Prosecutions poised to take legal action against the TV station that aired footage of a child being assaulted, Gerard Best think we may be on the brink of a watershed moment in the history of our local media...because is, indirectly, calling all media practitioners and media houses to consider more deliberately the need for principled self regulation in ethical decision making.

So wherever you look, the message, it seems to me, is the same that less is very often more, that slower is very often better. But that said, of course, it's not that easy to slow down, is it?

Yet the intellectual left has gone to great lengths to absolve regulators, government lending mandates, and agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of any responsibility for the housing boom and the subsequent bust.

And some of the most heartrending emails that I get on my website are actually from adolescents hovering on the edge of burnout, pleading with me to write to their parents, to help them slow down, to help them get off this full throttle treadmill.