recommendations
The only self-help book I've ever recommended without embarrassment.
Varda turns her camera on people who live off what others discard — then turns it on herself. One of the best documentaries ever made.
Oliver talks about paying attention as if it were a moral practice. The most important 51 minutes I've spent with a podcast this year.
Slowform is being built in the open with its first curators.
We're early. The shelves are filling, the curators are arriving, and the experience is still being shaped — sometimes between sessions. If you find a rough edge, that's the work in progress; if you find something that resonates, that's the part we're trying to keep.
Every account created during beta directly informs what we build next. No noisy feed, no ads, no algorithm — just a quiet shelf and the people whose taste you trust.
The platform built to help you find great content, and then leave.
There's a category of content that changes you: the book that made you rethink your life, the documentary that stayed with you for weeks, the podcast episode you still quote years later. This content is really important, but it often gets losts in all the noise on other platforms that were built to steal your attention at all costs.
Slowform is a library of curated long-form content. Content that is carefully curated by humans, where you connect and trust over a shared love for niche interests. Built to make it easy to find great content, and then leave our platform, to go enjoy it out in the real world.
Your picks are a portrait of who you are.
The content we love expresses a big part of who we are, how we think and what connects us with other people. There's no better way than connect with others by finding out you both love the same thing.
Starting with what we love, rather than stars and ratings
Each kurated item has a personal note, answering why something is worth your time. We try to reduce the noise and negativity, by asking curators only to commit to what they really appreciate.
Kalanithi wrote this while dying of lung cancer, and it shows — not in sentiment but in clarity. He was a neurosurgeon trying to understand what makes a life worth living, and he wrote it down before he ran out of time. I've given this away more times than any other book.
Discovery on slowform means finding a person — someone whose judgment you come to trust.
Books, cinema, and the occasional essay that changes how I see things. Interested in translation, slow travel, and ecological fiction.
Former product designer. Now thinking about where attention goes, what patience produces, and whether slowness is a political act.
Your shelf starts private.
Add the books, films, podcasts, and essays that shaped how you think. Share them when you're ready — no pressure to post, no feed pushing content at you.
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