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The artist Landis Blair, normally based in busy Chicago, has retreated for a few days to a cabin in remote Wisconsin. In his newsletter he writes: [I revisited] a number of the principles and ideas of […] the magazine and newsletter New Escapologist, which showcases writings and wisdom about escaping the daily grind. and: in […]

I took a six month sabbatical from work and halfway through that sabbatical, I quit my job. I started to live in the moment instead of the future. I went swimming in a local lake. I read books. I walked by the canal. I visited a friend in Devon. I started writing my newsletter. I […]

apart from the fear that I’ll one day have a use for the thing I’m binning, the thought of anything going into landfill weighs heavily on my soul. Adrian “Urinal” Chiles writes amusingly about decluttering today. Don’t worry too much about the landfill thing, Adrian. Do your best to intercept the passage to landfill but […]

Does freedom exist? Yes, it can be bought: people who have money are free. They can afford to do what they want when they want — and that is freedom, which, we are often told, is happiness. This is from Service, a brand new novel set in LA’s Echo Park district by John Tottenham. Big […]

To send a letter to the editor, simply write in. You’ll get a reply and we’ll anonymise any blogged version. “Emmy-nominated Netflix stars and New York Times-bestselling author,” Joshua from The Minimalists writes: Howdy, Joshua from The Minimalists here. You didn’t make the cut. A couple years ago, I made a quiet decision: I removed […]

Regular readers of this blog will know our position that Universal Basic Income (UBI) is (a) a likely solution for societies who want to abolish Wage Slavery and (b) an illustration of what happens when you let people be free instead of forcing them into undignified jobs that waste everyone’s time and energy. In one […]