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Spencer Bailey is a writer, editor, and cultural journalist whose work explores the intersections of design, architecture, memory, and human experience. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Slowdown, host of Time Sensitive, and former editor-in-chief of Surface. He reflects on surviving a plane crash, growing up without his mother, the role storytelling has played in understanding his own life, and why slowing down may be essential in a culture obsessed with speed.
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I feel like I've always been drawn to positions that are in the last line of defense. So, like, the hockey goalie, the drummer, the editor, the business owner, it all kind of falls on you.
“if you hear the word friction, you're like, I don't want friction with my hospitality. No, you do. Because it's actually really amazing when you go to a place and it's like, they're not doing it here the way they would do it at a Marriott”
“we had a very hard time with saying, I love you. It just wasn't something we did, naturally. Now, every time I talk to my dad or my brothers on the phone, I say, I love you.”
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