http://www.slothethic.com A blog about not getting things done Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:14:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "We need to find the time to daydream and be bored, and to see that, too, as a part of our creativity. We need, as it were, to find the time to waste time without worrying about the consequences". Psychologist and author, Adam Phillips, when asked by writer Sean O'Hagan to ... http://www.slothethic.com/sloth/the-time-to-waste-time/ This seems like very Slow travel to me... Three Men In A Float. Three men travel the width of England in an electric milkfloat - it travels at a maximum speed of 15 miles an hour, and needs an 8 hour recharge after every 30 miles travelled. I do love books that look ... http://www.slothethic.com/uncategorized/three-men-in-a-float/ I've been thinking more about comments that I made in response to a post by Carl Honoré on his blog. Although sitting idly and wilfing might seem like something that the Sloth Ethic would thoroughly approve of, perhaps this shouldn't always be the case. There may seem like no better ... http://www.slothethic.com/idling/click-click-flood/ The Sunday Times rich-list always gets a lot of coverage every year. So it's good to see the Independent on Sunday run a Happy List. Who would you add? http://www.slothethic.com/uncategorized/the-one-hundred-happy-makers/ IT TAKES, IT TAKES A BUSY MAN he hadn’t made a dent in his list for weeks. one of the items was “call z.” then one day z’s wife called to say that z had died. he was ashamed to catch himself indulging in a feeling of accomplishment as he crossed “call z” off his list. (a poem by ... http://www.slothethic.com/productivity/dangers-of-focusing-on-productivity-in-poem-form/ Slow Planet is now live. The brainchild of Carl Honoré (author of IN PRAISE OF SLOW), Geir Berthelsen (founder of the The World Institute of Slowness), and Dale+Bang, (a Norwegian communications firm involved in social responsibility work in Third World development and music), Slow Planet is:  ...the global meeting place for all ... http://www.slothethic.com/slow/slow-planet/ "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." I have started this occasional series with a post about Lin Yutang. After all, he's given this blog its tagline quote, ("If you spend ... http://www.slothethic.com/productivity/heroes-of-sloth-1-lin-yutang/ There are some excellent other places to visit which touch themes close to our heart, and I'd like to spend a little time in this article looking at them. We'll come back and explore each of these sites in more depth in later articles. The bible of the Slow movement is ... http://www.slothethic.com/idling/kindred-spirits/ Is that the time? Really? Ah well, eight months since the last post might be a disaster if this blog was concerned with maximising your productivity, or how to be a millionaire by the time you are twenty, or how to achieve a three hour work week (a simple plan: undercut ... http://www.slothethic.com/productivity/the-sloth-ethic-revisited/ ...the Sloth Ethic awakes. More soon. http://www.slothethic.com/uncategorized/like-a-bear-from-hibernation/