Life on 2x speed gets you to the end faster. That’s not the win you think it is.

Speed makes sense for anything you only want the information from. Applied to everything else it quietly turns experience into a task to be completed, and completing things is not the same as having them. The end of a film, a book or a summer is not the prize, just where it stops.

Put one thing back at normal speed this week. Watch the film at the pace it was made for, or take the long route home. Notice the discomfort in the first few minutes, because that is the habit protesting. Efficiency is useful at work and a strange way to handle a life.