Master Your Desk: A Simple System for Clutter-Free Focus
Let me paint you a picture. My desk. A glorious, sprawling testament to good intentions. A letter that needed following up. A bill that needed querying. A notebook with something important written in it — I just couldn’t remember what.…
Minimalism Isn’t a Monastery: Your Version of Less Is Enough
Minimalism does not mean ten grey t-shirts, bare white walls, and a single artfully placed pebble on a windowsill. It means something far more useful, far more personal, and considerably more interesting than that. Let me make the case. Say…
Buying time: How to Buy Less and Do More
I’ve spent the better part of my life acting as a voluntary curator for a museum of “Someday.” My loft is a historical archive of university textbooks for a degree I finished in the nineties, and my kitchen drawers are…
The Person I Was vs. The Person I’m Becoming.
I am currently in the thick of it. And by “it,” I mean a lifetime of accumulated evidence that I am a person who might need a rusty nail at 3:00am on a Tuesday. As I get closer to retirement, I’ve realised…
