What I'd like to start off with is an observation, which is that if I've learned anything over the last year, it's that the supreme irony of publishing a book about slowness is that you have to go around promoting it really fast.
在演讲开始，我愿意先讲一个事情， 如果说去年有什么让我印象深刻， 就是极具讽刺意味的 出版一本号召讲将速度慢下来的书 你却不得不超快速的四处推销它。