IdeasOpinion
The pleasure of doing one thing slowly
Forget productivity. An argument for giving the kettle, the darning needle and a single novel your whole, undivided attention.
By Jun Park5 min read
Ideas writer
Jun Park
Jun writes the Ideas pages — friendly arguments about attention, craft, maps and the value of doing things slowly.
Stories by Jun Park
CultureInterview
In conversation with a letterpress printer
A printer who works one letter at a time on why the slowest part of the job is the point — and what a misprint can teach you.
By Jun Park6 min read
IdeasOpinion
The case for unfinished things
A fourteen-inch scarf, a folder of abandoned beginnings and a case against the idea that a thing only becomes valuable once it is done.
By Jun Park5 min read
IdeasFeature
Learning to read maps again
An envelope, a failed sketch of a familiar neighborhood and a month of navigating by paper: on what we lose when the blue dot does the looking.
By Jun Park7 min read
