I’m probably a bit old-fashioned, but how can a reporter quitting email for a week be a news story? The piece I refer to is called What I Learned After Quitting Email For A Week and includes gems like these: As a generally well-functioning workplace human, I found the first few hours to be problematic […]
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Excuse Club
The first rule of Excuse Club is: You must talk about Excuse Club. Excuse Club is the dark and muddy basement where you lock up your dreams in order to tell yourself that you’ll deal with them later. And while you feel forgotten and abandoned down there, truth is that you’re never really on your […]
Link: Can We Make Ourselves Happier?
Sure can. Few surprises in this article (even in the “surprising findings” section), but maybe a few things to comment on: “In order to lead a happy life, a rewarding life, you need to be active,” says Veenhoven. “So involvement is more important to happiness than knowing the why, why we are here.” Good to […]
Link: Back online after a year without the internet
Here’s the story of a guy that leaves the internet for a year in order to solve all his problems: “I’d read enough blog posts and magazine articles and books about how the internet makes us lonely, or stupid, or lonely and stupid, that I’d begun to believe them. I wanted to figure out what […]