Next, West’s aphorism can be heard as quiet resistance to the social pressure of constant productivity. Hustle culture rewards visible busyness, yet busyness can be a performance that substitutes movement for meaning. Choosing slowness becomes a boundary: it says the pace of your values does not have to match the pace of the market.
Importantly, this isn’t a call to do less out of indifference, but to do what matters without surrendering to frantic norms. By refusing unnecessary urgency, people often rediscover priorities that were buried under speed. [...]
