Everything is Fast - Luke Burgis Newsletter
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What I’ve Learned About Time, Technology, and the Soul in a World That Will Never Slow Down
“The Sleeping Gypsy” by Henri Rousseau (1897) The world started moving too fast at some point in my life, or maybe it was my life that was moving too fast for my soul. The progression of my dad’s Alzheimer’s happened fast. My mom’s health decline sped up faster than I could comprehend it in real-time. The days went by too quickly. Is this just what getting older feels like, I thought? There are many unacceptable and unsatisfying answers to that question, many of them trite, and I’m too old to be trite. No. I would get to the end of a day and feel like I had just finished my morning…
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