Read everything slower.

Explore the benefits of reading everything slower in today’s post, and leave a comment to join this dialogue. Then see today’s writing prompt at the bottom of the post. [From the Archive.]

Our society runs on caffeine and adrenaline and speed and immediate reactions– to the point where those who are more intentional and deliberate (or try to be) are often ridiculed. And machines and algorithms and devices that process information (especially language) for us have only exacerbated the problem of making us all robotlike busybodies who do th…