A blog about not getting things done
Posted in idling, productivity, sloth, unproductivity, work on Mar 11th, 2007
Most people would think of Robert Louis Stevenson was a productive man. He wrote book after book of compelling stories that are perfect for passing slow childhood Sunday afternoons while rain drops chase each other down the windows. But Stevenson was no fan of the treadmill, and he loved his sloth enough that he wrote […]
Posted in idling, productivity, sleep, slow, unproductivity on Mar 11th, 2007
There’s a worrying cult at work in the world. It proselytizes at seminars, and through innocent looking web sites. It spreads its insidious message through books that are shelved in ordinary bookshops, where even children could see them.
You can tell its adherents by their pallor, their bleary eyed thousand yard stare, the stains on their […]
Posted in getting things done, lifehacks, moleskine, productivity, unproductivity on Mar 6th, 2007
Save money on new books! Buy a large moleskine, and a very fine-tipped pen. Lurk in bookshops copying word for word the books you want to read, so you can read them later and for free. If you get to page fifty, and decide that it’s rubbish, simply cross out your transcription, move on to […]
Posted in idling, productivity, sloth, unproductivity on Mar 4th, 2007
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time”
(Bertrand Russell)
The Sloth Ethic is dedicated – in a lackadaisical, slipshod sort of way – to the idea that many of us don’t spend enough quality time not getting things done.
I posted sporadically on a blog with the same name a little while ago, which mostly reflected […]