How could I forget Star Trek?
Ani White’s discussion of the latest iteration of Star Trek in Aurealis #138 (March 2021) reminded me that Science Fiction and the Economics of Utopia… Read More »How could I forget Star Trek?
reviews
Review: Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society?
If I’d been undertaking this blog as a serious academic exercise, I really ought to have read Anthony Veal’s Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society?… Read More »Review: Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society?
On finding time for community
I recently read through Neal Gorenflo’s Year of Living Locally, during which Gorenflo confined himself and his economic activities to his local neighbourhood (Mountain View,… Read More »On finding time for community
Great ideas and mundane work
I recently re-read Alex Soojung-Kim Pang’s Rest (2016), which was a major influence in what I wanted to achieve from life and work when I… Read More »Great ideas and mundane work
On the parallels between digital minimalism and work minimalism
Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism (2019) is more a book for my old blog than this one, but a couple of long chapters address how to… Read More »On the parallels between digital minimalism and work minimalism