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A Fortunate Layoff (June 27)
Having recently been laid off from my tech job (IT manager for a design firm in San Francisco), I've expanded my side work as an artist, which is now providing all of my income. I'm working as many or more hours, but it's on my schedule, doing something I really love. Let's hear it for the tech down-turn! It's changed my life for the better.

Bill Schuch
San Francisco, CA

Interruptions (June 27)
I think the greatest benefit of speed (one second, someone is paging me). Anyway, what I am trying to say about speed is that (I just got an email about the upcoming conference on multitasking!) So, I get things done so much faster now! I can keep in touch with friends (got to run, someone is calling me on my cell phone) . . .

David Henig
Portola Valley, CA

Our Country's Material Obsession (June 27)
Whenever I hear someone say that life has sped up I simply laugh at them. The current obsession with speed in America is not due to necessity, rather it's due to the fact that we live in a society that is obsessed with material items and keeping up with the Smiths. Why do people work 70-hour weeks and then feel like their life is passing them by? Because they have to in order to pay off the leases on the two Range Rovers, the 51" HDTV, the $10,000 stereo system, et cetera.

These sheep, these mindless sheep who waste air and space in this country and whose entire life is centered around their lawn, playing golf, and retiring to Florida, have chosen to feel that life is about speed. They're the same idiots who are feeding the computer companies. As someone who has been involved with computers since 1981, I can tell you that 90% of home users don't need the latest, fastest computer but they'll buy one because the marketing idiots tell them they need one, and because the Smiths down the street have one. Life has not become faster. It's only because these sheep are wasting their life that people feel life has sped up.

Myself, I live a nicely paced life. Free time, and the pursuit of slowly passing leisure time, is paramount to me. I live within my means, know how to keep to a schedule, and thus live my life at a slow pace. You only get one go through this crazy ride; why in the Hell would you want to spend it at some glass tomb (aka the office), or shuttling your brood around?

Scott R. Krol
Roswell, GA

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