The thing with idlers is that we know when to stop. When to relax. When to philosophize. When to discuss. When to have a beer. Or twelve. And then we know when to start and do the thing we thought about – as effectively and efficiently as possible. The only secret we need to know […]
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Mighty Micro Productivity
You have to wait five minutes for your wife or a friend to get ready to leave for dinner. What do you do? You can check your latest tweets or read the news or zap through a few TV channels. Or you can just enter some minutes of flow mode and create cool stuff: Edit […]
How Being Idle Helped Me to Be a Better Programmer
I’m excited to present the first friendly anarchistic guest post on this site! It was written by Oscar Del Ben who writes about personal development and productivity over at FreestyleMind. You absolutely should visit his website and subscribe to his RSS Feed. For The Friendly Anarchist, Oscar writes about how smart idling may lead to […]
Idleness and Action: A How-To
This article was written after my good friend Philipp wrote me the following lines about The Friendly Anarchist: “At first, I found [your posts to be] contradictory. You’re writing about the benefits of idleness on the one hand, and then about how good it feels to do something at all. So what is your point? […]
Procrastinate on TASKS, not on your LIFE
While in the 17th century procrastination was only a concern of some overly pious reverends, it has become a main preoccupation of the whole mankind nowadays – especially since the invention of Twitter and RSS feeds, it seems. Everybody is worried about procrastinating on the tasks they should be getting done. In times of ever more […]