>For various reasons for the past year or so I've been either lurking on >Silklist or just ignoring it. But I've got all the messages archived, so >if I want to get a sense of what y'all have been talking about of late >it's easy to do so, at my own convenience. Because there are real >conversations here, not just hastily-written cryptic texts, I feel >comfortable joining back in.
+1...! The fact that one can go back and sift through everyone’s viewpoints is rather comforting. Speaking of slow thinking, I’m reminded of the ultimate slow conversation -- the lost art of letter writing. Yep, “snail mail”! There was a strange and pleasurable sense of anticipation in waiting for, receiving, and then opening that envelope with eager fingers. And somehow, those exchanges felt deeper and far more satisfying. N From: j...@wetmachine.com Sent: 10 August 2018 20:09 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Cc: silklist Subject: Re: [silk] Slow thinking I too prefer asynchronous communication over "real-time" & email over over slack, etc. For various reasons for the past year or so I've been either lurking on Silklist or just ignoring it. But I've got all the messages archived, so if I want to get a sense of what y'all have been talking about of late it's easy to do so, at my own convenience. Because there are real conversations here, not just hastily-written cryptic texts, I feel comfortable joining back in. jrs On 2018-08-10 03:45, Ashim D'Silva wrote: I prefer asynchronous communication for just that > reason (email vs phone), but slack replacing email for instance is just > speeding things back up again. > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:32 AM Dave Long <dave.l...@bluewin.ch> > wrote: > >> "Slow" and "fast" might be better words for what we used to call >> "literate" and "oral" communication styles*. >> >> Although written communication one thousand years ago was almost >> always >> the result of reflection and composition, while spoken communication >> was >> almost always extemporaneous if not spontaneous, we now encounter all >> four >> quadrants in common use: >> >> fast spoken - oral communication >> fast written - texting (conversational online comments?) >> slow spoken - prepared speeches, lectures, etc. >> slow written - literate communication (epistolary mailing lists?) >> >> -Dave >> >> What about podcasts: are they generally fast or slow? >> >> * this would also explain why a recent BBC article claimed "we" prefer >> texting to email, when my preference is the opposite; I'm guessing >> their >> exclusive-rather-than-inclusive "we" (which might include ancient >> romans, >> tut-tutting "lucernam redolet"?) prefer fast to slow. >> >> >> -- > Cheerio, > > Ashim D’Silva > Design & build > www.therandomlines.com > instagram.com/randomlies
