Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make... →
Tom Hodgkinson
All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.
Once you explore life outside of work, it becomes addictive. The less you work, the less you want to work. At first, the odd afternoon off seems like... →
Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit... →
One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?
If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our own mental attitudes.
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated.... →
It's pretty obvious that Western lifestyles which rely on gigantic amounts of electricity use up far more resources than a subsistence-based... →
Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are... →
As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of... →
John Hodgman