One unexpected side effect of minimalism is that it’s fires me up. It seems odd to get excited about getting rid of stuff, decluttering and organising. But I can get jazzed up by imagining myself inside a tiny apartment or tiny house. There’s even a Youtube channel on it. If it’s not the house it’s […]
The Digital Gluttony trap
In my self-help drive and my writing. I would read books, blogs pick out the good ones and add it to my library or citation manager. Looking back it was as if I was trying to curate all the best ideas in the world. I felt that if I could have all the good ideas […]
The Importance of the Basics
‘It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe’ – Muhammed Ali Somethings in life get pushed aside. In our drive to be better, live better our priority is going to be the work. But in our drive to climb upwards things get forgotten. We all know […]
The great lie of comfort and becoming Antifragile
‘What does not kill me, makes me stronger’. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888 Our lives are easy in many ways. Most of us are not starving, we have a roof over our heads, water, clothes, entertainments, and more. We have defeated numerous threats like diseases, starvation, and lawlessness. The standards of living have […]
Minimalism and Cyberhoarding
As part of my Minimalism drive, I’ve been looking to making some more space by reducing the size of my PC. My computers have long been large because I was a gamer. I needed a big rig. But in 2016 I gave up on gaming and wanted to downsize. So my next PC was more […]
Life is about play, and why we need more of it
What’s missing in my life? Well many things but one I can identify is time for fun. Messing about, play. Sometimes I don’t want a goal a purpose to work towards. Measure my success rate, wonder how I’m doing, am I doing it right. I want to do something without the oversight of my own […]