work/life balance
31-3.6 Time, money and desk space Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/servererror-3592.html] I started this daft writing project with ideas of fighting complacency. It’s too easy to slip into habits in your blogging, to just keep doing what you did before, without any serious attempt to keep pushing yourself forwards.
31-3.2 A daily thrashing with the 500 word stick Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/sunrise-over-the-waterside-3567.html] So, here’s a question. Why am I putting myself through the horror of trying to write something substantive for this blog every single day in March? Leaving aside the possibility of an unexplored masochistic streak, the fundamental reason
Stop working so damn hard Paid Members Public
You shouldn’t put in so many hours working [http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/01/27/140127ta_talk_surowiecki]. Why? > The perplexing thing about the cult of overwork is that, as we’ve known for a while, long hours diminish both productivity and quality. Among industrial workers,
A Sunday e-mail sabbatical Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/09/cloudy-adur.jpg] There’s something seductive about counter-intuitive solutions. The fact that they feel wrong makes you think that they’re right… I’m trying something counter-intuitive right now. I’ve been struggling with balancing productivity and family time
Sometimes, you just need to live in the moment Paid Members Public
About as beautiful reminder as you could ask for that sometime we need to live in the moment, and not mediate every experience through our phones.
The problem with self-employment Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/garden-leaves.jpg] I’ve just had my eyes opened by, of all things, The Onion [http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-on-cusp-of-having-fun-remembers-every-single-o,32632/] : > While cracking open his second beer as he chatted with friends over a relaxed outdoor meal,
