Slowcore HQ

Slowcore HQ

"Move slow and preserve things." (h/t Tom Beck)

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Welcome to the /slowcore-hq channel, where our motto is "move slow and preserve things." (h/t @tombeck.eth) We focus on the Farcaster-seeded slowcore movement. Read the full post on @paragraph: https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson/welcome-to-the-slowcore-hq-channel-on-farcaster?referrer=danicaswanson.eth

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Actually got this in print. I love reading essays the old school way. Also feels like I remember them and their contents significantly better than stuff I just read online.

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I think slowcore people will enjoy Han's essay: "Scent of Time."

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In the /slowcore-hq we've often talked about wanting a community-owned, slowcore-friendly place on Farcaster for deep-dive discussions. Mike Natanzon of /impact and @impactfund is considering launching a "forum-like extension to FC in Impact App that can serve as a platform for long-form discussions - especially discussions about public goods (and then reward impactful contributions to the discussion." Sounds promising. It's still in the ideation phase, but I respect Mike's vision and have followed his work with interest for awhile, so I'll be keeping a close eye on this.

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Slowcore Quote of the Day "Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is wait and let an idea reveal what it wants to be." [...] "The biggest evolution in my creative practice came from an unexpected place: learning to hold onto ideas longer instead of rushing to share them." "This goes against everything the internet teaches us. "Ship early, ship often." "Build in public." "Find the others." Good advice, mostly. But publish too soon and the energy can dissipate before you know what’s actually there. Publishing can create a premature climax that marks a project as finished before it really begins." "This year I developed new respect for the slow burn." ~ Yancey Strickler

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There you have it, there's a limit to how fast one can think. Anyway, I think it's stupid to speed everything up for the sake of it. After all - we already cannot process all the stimuli we're confronted with. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/thinking-slowly-the-paradoxical-slowness-of-human-behavior

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Love this framing. Slowcore writers unite! 🐢

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Has anyone heard from our co-moderator @brunnicorsato lately? Looks like she hasn't been active on FC in a couple of months. I miss her thoughtful casts in this channel.

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This is the dream

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Recently I had a slowcore breakthough of sorts. I decided to just relax and not stress at all about building an audience or attracting engagement to my work as a writer. (NB: I've made that same decision many times before, but it's harder to make it stick when I'm deeply ensconced in a cultural milieu that rewards people for capturing attention and engagement). Truth be told, I'm content with quietly working in the shadows anyway. That's where I do my best writing. But it happens slowly. On its own timetable. If this means I'll never make a sustainable living doing the writing I want to do — because even in web3 the financial rewards go only to those who put in extra time on top of their creative work to build sizable audiences — then it's time to make my peace with it and return to day jobs.

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My fellow sloth people of /slowcore-hq might appreciate this, since this channel is all about acceptance of not-doing.

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Festina lente. Latin for “make haste slowly.” A wonderful slowcore defense of procrastination by Nassim Taleb in his book, Antifragile. I’ve found procrastination to be a powerful (and poorly-understood) tool. Waiting helps reveal what is actually important. Everything feels urgent in the moment but rarely is. Learning to delay action filters out the irrelevant.

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Slowcore Quote of the Day: On "qarrtsiluni" "There’s a wonderful idea from the Inuit people called qarrtsiluni... sitting quietly together in the dark. Waiting expectantly for something creative to occur. I just love that as a metaphor of where we are right now as a species. We don’t know what’s coming... it isn’t about achievement and compensation and doing more right now." ~ Francis Weller Source: https://oliviaclementine.com/francis-weller-the-medicine-you-carry-suturing-the-inevitable-tears/

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As winter approaches in the Northern hemisphere, a song about slowing down & becoming "stillness in motion" 🤍 ❄️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7LymqneOtg

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Slowcore Quote of the Day “…life is not meant to be rushed through. It is not a race, nor is it a problem to be solved. It is an experience to be lived, and living well requires presence. To focus on one thing deeply, to give it your full attention, is to experience it fully. And when we do this, something remarkable happens. Time, which so often feels like it is slipping through our fingers, begins to slow. Moments become rich, textured. Even the simplest of tasks takes on a new significance when approached with care, with attention.” ~ Bill Wear, "The Quiet Art of Attention" https://billwear.github.io/art-of-attention.html

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