Is there Really a Need for Speed or Should we Reclaim our Right to Idleness?

Blame today's musings on Are You Too Accessible? (by my friend Valeria Maltoni).
She starts by mentioning The Age of Speed, a book by Vince Poscente who closes his weekly notes with the words 'Until next week it’s full speed ahead'...
He wants to help us learn how to ride the speed tsunami.
Should we really?

On my most enjoyable and refreshing day of the past couple of weeks, I could not claim to major accomplishments, only the pleasure of learning new things and discovering amazing artists in an unhurried visit to the American Indian Museum in New York.

Can't we find virtue in idleness or at least pacing ourselves?

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