This is going to be a very short post. I believe the drive for simplifying life can be explained by the stress of exceeding certain capacities. First, the individual human brain can handle certain levels of complexity. Much like with IQ which strongly correlates with the ability to simultaneously being able to juggle things in [...]
Why downsizing and voluntary simplicity?
Published in July 31st, 2009
Posted by Jacob in Philosophy
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Published in July 31st, 2009
Here is a selection of blogs that I recently added to my reader. I usually find myself subscribing to “small” blogs, maybe by virtue of seeking out the unconventional and contrarian, it naturally precludes any blog that is or becomes popular—or maybe it’s just me and my contrarian ways of not being able to relate [...]
Dealing with heatwaves
Published in July 29th, 2009
It would appear that the northwestern US is dealing with some of the early effects of climate change otherwise known as “really weird weather” or “record weather”. As it currently being demonstrated, the problem is not so much 105F temperatures, after all, down here in bay area, we have 105F temperatures on a regular basis, [...]
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