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Attention
Where it goes, who wants it, and how to get some back.
- EpisodeSlow Signals, episode 47 Inbox zero was never the point A solo episode about email, unanswered letters and the difference between being reachable and being available. With three small rules I actually keep.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 263 What the 28 tram knows about patience Forty minutes, four kilometres, and the slowest lesson Lisbon has taught me.
- ThreadThread A short thread on reading slowly I've been reading one essay a day, on paper, with a pencil. Some notes after a month.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 261 Listening at half speed Everyone I know listens to podcasts at double speed. I tried the opposite for a month.
- EpisodeSlow Signals, episode 42 Reading on paper again Jonah Feld runs a secondhand bookshop in Porto and has watched a generation come back to paper. What changes when a book cannot notify you.
- EpisodeSlow Signals, episode 41 The patience of maps Aiko Tanabe draws maps by hand. We talk about what a map leaves out, walking a city to draw it, and the year she spent mapping one street in Kyoto.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 253 Notes from a waiting room Two hours at the immigration office, no phone signal, and a small defence of boredom.
- TalkSmall Web Day, Online The slow web isn't nostalgia Personal websites are not a retro hobby. They are the most durable, findable and humane way to publish — and they are easier to own than ever.
- EssayLow Tide, issue 188 Against the infinite scroll A page should end. When it does, you get to decide what happens next.
Low Tide
A letter from Lisbon, every other Sunday.
Essays first, before they land here. No tracking pixels, no ads, one click to leave. 6,400 people read it; the next one goes out on Sunday 1 November.
