This is my first Moderate Proposal for Daunting, Delightful and Dilettantish Deeds to Pursue in 2014. See the introduction. I’m not a user1 of Tim Ferriss’ diet – or any diet, really, apart from using common sense2 – but there’s one thing to it: Cheat days! It goes like this: Ferriss recommends a specific and pretty… Continue reading Cheat Days
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14 Moderate Proposals for Daunting, Delightful and Dilettantish Deeds to Pursue in 2014
Early in January, I always feel as if I was living on a forgotten island eastward of the International Date Line. The new year seems to reach other people so much earlier than me: Somehow, superhuman efficiency allowed them to achieve their old-year-goals, prepare for Christmas, celebrate, look back and reflect, look forward and plan,… Continue reading 14 Moderate Proposals for Daunting, Delightful and Dilettantish Deeds to Pursue in 2014
Long Haul Reinvention, Thinking in Public, and the Idle Computer
Over the last few weeks, I was happy to stumble on a few familiar topics on other places around the internet. To begin with, it looks like James Altucher beats me when it comes to the long haul: Time it takes to reinvent yourself: five years. Here’s a description of the five years: Year One:… Continue reading Long Haul Reinvention, Thinking in Public, and the Idle Computer
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… Continue reading Excuse Club
Why You Should Reduce Your Working Hours
The sea is like work: There’s enough for everybody. —Farin Urlaub, Am Strand (“At the Beach”) The term transition originates in the 16th century and is derived from the Latin verb transire, “to go across”. On the one hand, this seems adequate as I “went across” to live on an island this summer. On the… Continue reading Why You Should Reduce Your Working Hours