Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Douglas Coupland
It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media... →
Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision.... →
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and... →
I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out... →
For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for... →
I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still... →
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every... →