Slowcore HQ

Slowcore HQ

A Farcaster-native slow culture movement. Home of Studio Slowcore, purveyors of fine wordsmith arts and connoisseurs of slow culture. Our motto: "Move slow and preserve things."

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The Studio Slowcore team is pleased to announce the official revival of the /slowcore-hq channel after a long hibernation. In keeping with the announcement in our other channel, /gift-economics, the studio (stewarded by myself, @trigs.eth, and @y0b) will be experimenting to build a hybrid gift economy + business endeavor to sustain both channels. More details in our studio's launch announcement linked below. A few initiatives we're considering for /slowcore-hq: - Recognize contributors with Slothy Awards - Continue weekly rituals of "not-doing" and Slowcore Quotes of the Day - Expand our Slowcore Manifesto (aka "What Is Slowcore?") - Host themed discussions based on writings by our fellow slowcasters, e.g. "In Praise of Going Slow" by @tombeck.eth - Build a slowcore lexicon and knowledge base for collective concept stewardship (e.g., a slowcore lexicon, slowcore-friendly patterns in place-making, etc.) - Maintain digital gardens catering to the snailblazers and the slowpilled - Facilitate slowcore-friendly URL-to-IRL meetups Other ideas are welcome! Note: All pending memberships from many moons ago have now been approved. Our apologies for the ridiculously long wait while the owner dealt with a death in the family and the future of channels was uncertain enough that we put the channel into hibernation for many months. We were delighted to see that many casters just kept right on casting here to keep the channel alive during the time the mods were unable to tend to it. Your efforts are appreciated. 💜 🐢 If you appreciate our work and wish to contribute financially, gifts of crypto are accepted at the studio's multisig: slowcore.eth. We will route them toward retro-rewards for the gift labor done to bootstrap our channels. Gifts can also help free up more time for us to steward the channels responsibly in the future. Please do not gift any funds that are needed for your own support. https://farcaster.xyz/danicaswanson/0xa76d9edf (https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x24453ebe8d78de52f6d253cf26fec18ab34b041f/2?referrer=tombeck.eth)

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Slowcore HQ weekly ritual We hear a lot about FOMO (fear of missing out). What brought you JOMO (joy of missing out) this week?

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Slowcore Quote of the Day "Problems are typically richer than our preconceived notions about how to solve them. We can learn this the hard way, by failing and then failing again but failing better. But there are often shortcuts to be found if you are willing to spend more time mapping the landscape. [...] "When you go deep, probing the assumptions, looking from multiple angles, and reformulating things in your own words, the ideas become part of you. This is one of the reasons why I write. When I unpack things fully, the ideas become objects that I can rotate in my mind. The subconscious can draw parallels that it can’t if the ideas haven’t been thoroughly unpacked." ~ Henrik Karlsson from "Being Patient with Problems" https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/being-patient-with-problems

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Happy with this

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right now, in this moment you are someone's great-great-grandmother someone's ancient one whose choices ripple forward through bloodlines and ecosystems you haven't even imagined yet and also you are the descendant of countless beings who made choices that led to you existing here reading these words https://sacred.display.cz/prayer

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If anyone I follow has been wondering why they're starting to see more likes, recasts, and replies from me on their "old" casts from 1-2 days ago... it's because I've been using the @felt app. How it works: you choose 15 accounts whose casts you don't want to miss, and the app gives you a focused feed of casts from just those accounts. So you don't have to scroll through casts you don't want to see in the home feed, or visit profiles individually to keep up. Saves a lot of time, which can then be spent on creative work. Fantastic. Thanks to @chriscocreated for building this, and to @bradq for calling it to my attention. The mods of /slowcore-hq have been (slowly) working on building a Slothy Awards initiative, and we think @felt is a top contender. More news forthcoming... whenever it's ready. ;)

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are.na never fails to utterly delight me

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We (the Studio Slowcore team) appreciate this kind of early enthusiasm so much. Thanks to everyone who's letting us know they love what we're doing and they plan to subscribe or otherwise support our work. We'll have lots more news in a few weeks!

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This is so slow coded. 2 information designers sending each other postcodes of the data of their lives https://www.dear-data.com/theproject

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Thanks to @bias for this new entry to the Slowcore Lexicon: "slowmentum." For example: "I'll ignore my to-do list this afternoon and take a nap. I built up a lot of slowmentum this morning, and I don't want it to go to waste."

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Slowcore HQ weekly ritual The Studio Slowcore team is (slowly) putting together a Slowcore Lexicon. Here's part of our list: - slowpilled ("Thanks to this channel, I'm really slowpilled.") - snailblazer ("She's a real snailblazer.") - slowcore problems ("No good place to take a nap. Slowcore problems, amirite?") - slowcore cred ("If I reply to casts too quickly, I'll lose slowcore cred points.") - slowpreciation ("I appreciate the slow pace around here.") What other words and phrases do you think should be on our list? Bonus points if you use them in a sentence.

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Here's a quick update on what's next for Studio Slowcore. Originally we planned to launch in three phases: I. Stewardship (channels - late July) II. Slowcraft (professional editorial services - late August) III. Sustained Attention (digital browsing rooms in Obsidian - late September) Then last week we received a request from a community member to host regular public community calls, and there's been additional interest from members of our group chat. @trigs.eth liked the idea a lot, and had already been thinking along similar lines. @y0b, our resident gift economics consultant, is also interested in hosting. So we're adjusting our timeline: we're combining phases II and III into one, and adding community calls into the mix. We're excited to host more conversations about /gift-economics! In the second half of September, after Trigs returns from a break, we'll have more news, so stay tuned. (Note: we won't be launching a coin).

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Definitely /slowcore-hq coded. 🐢 🐌

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Love this take on slow philosophy/slow scholarship. I love learning, but too much structure makes it less enjoyable, which is part of why I left academia. I wanted to follow only the study trails led by my curiosity, and give the creative process time and space to work on its own (slow) timetable. Letting the ideas and notes rest and percolate for awhile is key to a fruitful creative process for autodidacts.

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This mindset of learning to protect ourselves from our work, often from ourselves too, is very slow-pilled in my mind. Building the right thing is more important than building the right now though. But we often can't see past the right now until we disconnect from it. Planning for that and ensuring we give ourselves and each other the space to disconnect and see the forest past the trees is essential if we want to see each other achieve our creative potential!

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