What is Slowcore?

It started out as a made-up term to express distaste for hustle culture. Then it took on a life of its own. 

Now this concept is so fully integrated into what we're doing with Black Stone Sanctuary that we named our channel after it.

(Screenshot essay snippet is from Slowcore and the Inner Genius)

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Glad to hear it speaks to you. Thanks for commenting!

In an environment that normalizes habits of hustle culture, it can be really challenging to resist the tides that lead to burnout - especially because there's a personal cost (i.e., it may put you at a disadvantage relative to those who embrace hustle culture).

I've been thinking about this so much since the first time I read it. I need to adopt this as a foundational principle in my life. I think I've been burned out for far too long, having to adapt to the rush requests of everyone else's priorities, opening loops just to pine over closing them and busying myself up just bc

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Thanks! It remains to be seen whether this approach will be translatable into a viable long-term web3 business model to support the work. 

It's the antithesis of hustle culture, which puts us at a disadvantage relative to the normative web2 business models.

But we're going to experiment and see what happens.

All of this! This is spot on and I am all for it as a set of guidelines for how to live and create.

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@0xchris reminds me of what you shared from Paul Fussell’s book on class