Technology enables us to do more, faster. And so we do more... faster. But not better.  And our quality of life is not better.  In this powerful article by Barry C. Boyce we learn the value of the "pause". To be effective, it has to be your pause - you decide when and how long it should be...

"The best-known program in high tech for promoting wisdom practices is Google’s Search Inside Yourself, which was spearheaded by Chade-Meng Tan. Meng, as he is known, is already a veteran spokesperson for the Wisdom 2.0 movement. His core belief is that if you can reach people at their workplace, you can change how they are, and ultimately change the world. It’s becoming a kind of article of faith for the Wisdom 2.0 crowd. For Kevin Rose, it includes things as simple as providing people at work with high quality loose tea, so they have to “at least interrupt their momentum long enough to properly make a good cup of tea,” which they may then take the time to enjoy rather than simply gulp down."

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