A blog about not getting things done
Posted in Uncategorized, slow on May 30th, 2008
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 at the world from a […]
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 slow on Apr 19th, 2008
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 things Slow. It is 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 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 slow on May 3rd, 2007
The Long Now Foundation consider the attention span of modern civilisation to be pathetically short. Far better to take a view where the long term is measured in centuries, rather than by the publication schedule of monthly magazines and daily newspapers.
They have some projects on the go that transcend the now-now-now impulse.
Like a mechanical clock […]
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 […]