When I started at Knopf I was assigned In Praise of Slow because I told my colleague Diane, one of Canada’s most brilliant publishing minds, that I had decided to stop wearing my wrist watch. The rest is history. Carl is ahead of his time, and his book on the slow movement has become essential reading for a society in need of chill. He has gone on to write books about aging and how powerful one can remain in the twilight years.