22 Oct
My return to Austria gave me pause, for example seeing how many pieces of running clothes I thought I had, and actually do have. It also provided a chance to test some new equipment, the Suunto Quest sports/training instrument. Having something new to try out had the interesting side-effect of making me all the more [...]
27 Aug
In my last post, I used the simplistic metric of the number of things as a measure of minimalism. It is a common misconception, though I’d say that it’s not totally wrong: a minimalism of a thousand pairs of shoes doesn’t sound quite right. And those 7 pairs of CW-X running tights of mine?
26 Aug
Being at home somewhere typically implies that you have at least some things that are familiar, that you can call yours, around you – but also, that those same things become so mundane, they aren’t really noticed much anymore. It’s just a fact of life, and part of the “faulty connections” we make about happiness, [...]
Between "work" and "life," "humanity" and "nature," "us" and "them," we are ever more like tourists just visiting this world - and indeed this one life we have for sure.
High time we come to be at home.
…, Or: The Best Habit Is a Tool Convenience. It is our time’s great guideline. And it’s what makes us live ever more on this world, like tourists just visiting, rather than truly at home in this world. Even “lifehackers,” who seem the best example of people who still want to learn more when they [...]
“I’m not impressed.” It is easily the ugliest modern attitude that gets expressed by this phrase. As an attempt at coolness and aloofness that does not result in any of the freedom that a certain distance from the humdrum world could provide, it is nothing but proving that you are not really engaged in this [...]
The age of adventure, the era of explorers – it all seems a thing of the past. Now, the best you can do is action sports and extreme travel – but there’s a big difference: The earlier explorers didn’t quite know what they were getting themselves into, and went to the white spots on the [...]
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