Are We Changing Faster Than We Can Handle?
There’s this quiet tension I keep coming back to...personally, creatively, even socially. Is the rate of change outpacing our capacity to adapt to it? Are we evolving...or just scrambling to keep up?
The world we grew up in (Generation X + Millennials) is not the world we now live in.
And I’m not talking about nostalgia. I’m talking about infrastructure. Culture. Work. Time. The speed at which everything now shifts. The constant updates, the endless scroll, the always on pressure to pivot, absorb, respond, reinvent.
It’s thrilling, sure. But also...are we coping?
Because it’s starting to feel like the human part of all of this is lagging. Like we were built for slower systems. Longer loops. More context. And now we’re being asked to function in environments that are rewriting themselves by the day.
In branding and design, I see it clearly.
There's less room for pause, more demand for reaction.
But it’s bigger than work.
Across multiple domains...mental health is a biggie, physical wellbeing, social cohesion, we’re seeing signs of strain. We’re sleeping less. Moving less. Thinking in fragments. Even the way we relate to each other is shifting...texts instead of calls, reactions instead of conversations.
So, is it making us sick?
Maybe not in the traditional sense. But something is off.
And it’s worth asking...just because we can keep up, does that mean we should?
I don’t have the answers. But I do think the most powerful thing we can do right now is pause. Reflect. Reconsider what it means to create, work, and live in a world that never stops changing.
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