Video from New Zealand TV about life work balance. You’ll need Microsoft Media Player and a broadband connection for this one. This is from http://www.xtra.co.nz.

Multitasking is impossible. On closer examination, it’s an illusion. We slice time into smaller and smaller segments, but we can only do one thing in each time segment.

If you are talking on a mobile phone and attempting to drive, you are splitting your attention between these tasks. The ability to concentrate reaps rewards. The […]

What a delight it is to read Bertrand Russell at any time.

Right now you can hear two Rieth lectures from the series he gave in 1948 on the BBC Website On Authority and the Individual.

Russell, Bertrand In Praise of Idleness, Routledge, London 1994. First published in Great Britain in 1935.

Challenging, clear, and controversial

This […]

Gini, Al. The Importance of Being Lazy: In praise of play, leisure and vacations. , Routledge, 2003, New York.

This well-researched book is a great place to start to learn about the slow lifestyle. Al Gini is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He’s also a business consultant. He previously explored a mixture of business, […]

Pieper, Josef. Leisure: The Basis of Culture. South Bend, Indiana: St.Augustine’s Press, 1998 originally published 1948:

Writing in Germany after World War II, Josef Pieper questions the value of work per se. While he acknowledges the necessity of business and commerce, he argues that individuals define themselves in narrow economic terms.

Pieper defines the “The Total […]

A Fast Tour of the Slow Movement.

In Praise of Slowness: How a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed by Carl Honoré, Harper 2004

Carl Honoré is doing for the “Slow Movement” what Carl Sagan did for astronomy.

This topical and well-researched book gives the reader a sense of what people around the world […]

On reading the new getting out of bed article, Rick Chappell wrote to me with a profound question, “Can there be too much tea?”

Rick,

I didn’t mean to offend your refined sensibilities. I understand your objection. This may seem strange, but there can be such a pathological condition as too much tea.

I learned this from […]