"Though it’s a hard thing to establish scientifically, we’re almost certainly much more impatient than we used to be. **Our decreasing tolerance for delay is reflected in statistics on everything from road rage and the length of politicians’ sound bites to the number of seconds the average web user is prepared to wait for a slow-loading page**. (It has been calculated that if [[Amazon]]’s front page loaded one second more slowly, the company would lose $1.6 billion in annual sales.)" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[efficiencies]], [[patience]], [[progressing-slowly]], [[attention]], [[character]], [[teaching-anecdotes]] **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]