About saturday slowdown
I spent a decade teaching men how to dress well. Now I'm more interested in how to live well. Saturday Slowdown is a newsletter and community for millennials and gen-xers who are tired of optimizing everything and want to reclaim creativity, craft, and calm. I write about slow living, share my urban sketches from travels, and occasionally give style advice—but mostly I'm documenting what it looks like to decenter work and make more art.
About Peter
Peter Nguyen is an artist, stylist, and advocate for slow living. After building The Essential Man into a respected men's style brand, he's shifting focus to the bigger question: how do we live intentionally in a world that demands constant productivity? Through his Saturday Slowdown newsletter, workshops, and community, he explores style as one expression of a well-considered life—alongside urban sketching, travel, and the quiet rebellion of doing things just to do them.
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