I was talking with a friend last night at Stitch n Bitch (weekly women’s gathering where we drink red wine, laugh a lot, and occassionally knit). She told me the horror story of the evening. Her many-year-old Powerbook screen blitzed out, kaput, gone! …and…. she doesn’t have her stuff backed up, what’s she to do while she saves up for a new computer?

Her, like many’s, work uses the computer as an essential tool. Working without it and the information in it for a month or so just is not an option.

I see this crazed fervor (us) running around like the sky is falling should we have to switch gears and figure out how to keep going-going-going!

Italian blogger Luca De Fino left a very simple message on his recent post: SLOW

My amateur translation of his bolded message, “un approccio olistico al pensiero creativo, al processo e ai suoi frutti” is:
an holistic approach to the creative thought, the process, and your fruits.

I see this as asking, “Are our actions, thoughts, and desired results sustainable, for ourselves? for the world?”

The post was the last before Luca heads off for vacation–italian style. They call it “ferie” and it is for the month of August. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

If you feel like slowing down for some gratuitous pondering, check out the downloadable pdf report in his post called, “slow-design.pdf” (It’s about the role of designers in the evolution of our economy. It’s in english). Go to page 5 of the report. My question is this: why is “The Intelligence Economy at the feet of the diagram?”

And if you want more ideas for slowing down even more, you can check out the Slow Movement.