A blog about not getting things done
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 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 productivity, sleep on Apr 15th, 2007
Power nap.
If ever there was a phrase that took one of life’s great delights and reduced it to a brutal, utilitarian, joyless stump, it is that one.
And it’s everywhere. The success of the power nap. Computer-aided power naps. The science of sleep. Bludgeoning your brain into submission with binaural beats. How twenty minutes can make […]
Posted in creativity, getting things done, lifehacks, procrastinating, procrastination on Mar 25th, 2007
You can’t click a link on the web without stumbling over yet more advice on how to avoid procrastination. So we at the The Sloth Ethic thought that we would jump on the bandwagon outline our approach to overcoming procrastination, and getting things done. To rush into these things only reinforces your procrastinating tendencies, so […]
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 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 […]