A blog about not getting things done
Posted in creativity, idling, relaxation, sloth, unproductivity on Jun 29th, 2008
“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 name one single thing that […]
Posted in health, idling, mindfulness, procrastination, relaxation, slow on May 28th, 2008
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 waste of time than an […]
Posted in getting things done, heroes of sloth, idling, productivity, relaxation, slow, tea, unproductivity on Apr 2nd, 2008
“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 a perfectly useless afternoon in […]
Posted in idling, relaxation, slow on Mar 26th, 2008
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 Carl Honore’s excellent In Praise […]
Posted in getting things done, gtd, idling, procrastinating, procrastination, productivity, sloth, slow, unproductivity, work on Mar 24th, 2008
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 the four hour work week […]
Posted in idling, procrastinating, procrastination, relaxation on Jul 29th, 2007
Want a break from the horrors of the news pages? From compulsively checking your rss feeds (monkey press button get treat monkey press button get treat monkey press button)?
Slow down. Relax.
Posted in "work ethic", idling, relaxation, sloth, unproductivity on May 30th, 2007
Britain is becoming a nation of aimless internet users, spending an average of two full working days a month surfing the web without any real purpose, a study claims.
The English language has acquired a new verb: to wilf. Wilf is coined from the phrase that many surfers utter when they realise that they’ve just been […]
Posted in health, idling, relaxation, sloth, tea, unproductivity on May 20th, 2007
(Photo thanks to Phil Moore)
While I will confess to not being the greatest fan of outgoing UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, just days from his retirement he has finally addressed one of the pressing issues of our time: how hard it is to get a decent cup of tea.
“It’s got to be properly strong, […]
Posted in health, idling, mindfulness, relaxation, sloth on May 6th, 2007
The kind of relaxation that is part of the sloth ethic depends on being able to live in the moment. It’s hard to enjoy sitting in the sun with a good book (I’m with you there, jcr) if you are fretting about the meeting that’s coming up next week, the interview next month, the effects […]
Posted in idling, moleskine, productivity, unproductivity on Apr 29th, 2007
Everyone’s favourite productivity tool is a moleskine notebook. But they can also be equally useful for not getting things done.
(photo thanks to Lost In Scotland)
Moleskines are wonderful quality notebooks. So wonderful, in fact that it is a crime to despoil the silky cream opulence of the paper by anything so mundane as writing in them. […]