Category archives: thoughts
One thing at a time
I’m awful for it, especially when I’m online, for constantly switching websites. For having a thought and then opening another tab and stepping away from what I was actually doing. Like when I’m sat writing this, I’ve been distracted at… continue reading »
Learning what’s enough
What is enough? I’ve read a whole book on it (exert here). We’re conditioned to want more and more. More things, more experiences, pushing ourselves ever faster, harder. It’s just this evening, I think I managed to catch myself wanting… continue reading »
Simplicity is not simple
I meant to write about how difficult I was finding sorting all my things out but this picture kind of sums it up.
Leave it. Be happy now.
It seems very common for Western Buddhists (and others) to take their rejection of materialism to mean that one must go from thinking “I’ll be happy when I have more” to “I’ll be happy when I have less”. The fallacy… continue reading »
minimal
I think I’ve secretly wanted to be more minimalist for a long while. While I won’t deny I feel the urge for more, shinier, newer I think I’ve never really completely embraced it. At the back of my mind there’s… continue reading »
The problem
For me blogging was simply an extension of all the writing I’ve always done in notebooks. It was a chance to put things down and get things out of my head. It started with a notebook mum got me for… continue reading »
The One Week Digital Cleanse
So I was looking for some stuff on Chrome and Chromium and ad-block and Greasemonkey and the usual stuff that’s not actually that important really and came across this entry > http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/30/john-mayer-digital-cleanse/ About [Ok, I just spent 10 minutes reading… continue reading »
Stop putting things off…
Once you start procrastinating pleasure, it can become a self-perpetuating process if you fixate on some imagined nirvana. The longer you wait to open that prize bottle of wine, the more special the occasion has to be. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/science/29tier.html?_r=1 They reference… continue reading »
We love the place we hate
We love the place we hate, then hate the place we love We leave the place we love, then spend a lifetime trying to regain it. http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/300096304/we-love-the-place-we-hate-then-hate-the-place-we (Some NSFW content on that blog. Sometimes when you trawl the internet you… continue reading »
Advice
There’s advice everywhere, everyone will give you an opinion if you ask them. There’s too much isn’t there? 18:19:07 Rob G: “the lifehacker paradox” All that useful info and tips and links and software in fact spoiling your life through… continue reading »
What matters now?
Via 43 Folders (http://www.43folders.com/2009/12/14/enough) is this pdf (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/files/what-matters-now-1.pdf). 70 or so people were asked to ‘talk about a word or phrase related to their own idea of What Matters Now.’ The results are short, brief, digestible and definitely thought-provoking. Passion:… continue reading »
advertising
Go on then, what’s the best ad of the last decade? Which commercial has taken you by the scruff, held you rapt, entertained you, moved you (and, yes, the best ads should be able to do all of that)? (And… continue reading »
Stick it, Monday.
The weekend is over and I don’t care. “Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the… continue reading »
less fastly fastly, more slowly slowly
(I’ve been a little distracted by Kottke.org, he links to some interesting stuff.) Including this > http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/back-to-the-land/. He calls it an essay, so I wasn’t the expecting the format it is in. It’s this sort of quiet, unassuming format where… continue reading »
‘Nothing happens next, this is it.’
“Where are you going, what are you doing? Then what happens, and then, and then? Moment by moment, our lives pass us by as we move onto the next thing, missing the miracle, which is our ability to experience life.… continue reading »
If this isn’t nice
“And now I want to tell you about my late Uncle Alex. He was my father’s kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his principal… continue reading »
Friends are…
(I paraphrase.) Friends are the people who know what you’re really like but are still willing to talk to you. Had a lovely meal with Jenn yesterday in Pizza Express (good service makes such a difference) in Worcester. Then just… continue reading »
Honestly?
(I’ve not really thought this through and I’m in a bit of a rush. Better to blog then to not though eh…) I’ve always said I’ve liked honestly, except it’s always been something I’ve, personally, found difficult for a whole… continue reading »
First Person
The Guardian has a series called First Person which I occasionally go back to and read when I remember to. Today I read this one > http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/06/nicholas-taylor-buried-alive “How my life was changed by being buried in Mother Earth for a… continue reading »