WAS (fast) | IS (slow) |
Fast food, take out |
Slow food, cooking, dinner parties |
‘Super’ market, processed food, discounts, shelf life, conveniencve |
Growing vegetables, farmers market, gourmet food, butchers, real ingredients, less packaging, joyful inconvenience and hence quality |
Get rich quick, money making schemes, flipping –shares & property assets, asset accumulation |
Passion jobs, wealth in doing, not keeping score, grand designs, experience accumulation |
Instant coffee – isolated ergogenic aid |
Café latte, macchiato, espresso cappuccino – discussion and social facilitation. |
Cheap, more, value |
Premium, less, gourmet, |
Doing more, expectations |
Taking time, internalizing |
Ladder climbing, competition, job hoping |
Ladder building, collaboration, sabbaticals |
Long hours, skipping meals, avoiding exercise, financial objectives, excuse making |
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Spending less on more |
Spending more on less |
Pay rates, fringe benefits, promotional opportunities |
Mind growth, real flexibility, independence |
This is some, not all…. but all follow the path. Feel free to add ‘some’
What path is your start up on? The slow path or the fast path?
*reader warning. (none of the above refers to doing reacting slowly in your startup. Just the ’real’ trend of getting our lives back)
It took me a while to figure something that fitted the criteria. This probably doesn’t, but it does have some similarity to what you are suggesting/asking:
PREV: Five minute computer time because we paid by the hour, and we paid excess after 24 hours.
NOW: Five hour computer time because we pay by the bandwidth, and it’s around 60GIG a month. (We occasionally reach 15GIG!)
Sometimes the road less taken is indeed the better one…..life is to be enjoyed, not zooomed past without smelling the roses….