We were never madeto slow down
Rest got sold to us as a product with a finish line. Four people who stopped buying it explain what they do instead.
We were never made to slow down — Culture
The newcultureof escape
Escape used to mean going somewhere. Now it means holding still in the room you are already in, and the objects have changed to suit.
Relaxation is not escape.It is a form of control.
The word does most of the damage. Read it as a discipline rather than a reward and the whole range reads differently — including the parts we tell people not to buy.
Two hundred kilometresof not thinking
A club that rides at night, and what they say happens to the noise in your head somewhere after the first hour.
Rooms designed to slow a pulse
Concrete, one light source and nothing on the walls. Why the architecture of calm keeps arriving at the same short list.
What the label does nothave room to say
Potency is one number on a certificate that runs to four pages. Here is the rest of the sheet, and which parts of it we act on.
Smoke, ritual and thefour minutes it takes
The act is short and almost entirely habit. We asked what people are actually doing with those four minutes.
An afternoon that goes nowhere
In praise of the unplanned hour: no destination, no company you have to entertain, and nothing to show for it afterwards.
Stillness,practised
Sitting with nothing to do is a skill, and like every skill it is mostly repetition. A portrait of someone who has put in the hours.