Tag: community
6 posts tagged "community".
The web of relationships, belonging, and mutual obligation that ties a person to others — and one of the most reliable ingredients of a good life that money cannot directly buy. On this blog community is treated as a serious counterweight to the individualist drift of FIRE and footloose optionality: freedom is hollow without people to share it with, and strong ties are among the strongest predictors of happiness and durable meaning-making. It connects to the matthew effect in social life — networks compound — and to a critique of consumerism and status signalling as thin substitutes for genuine belonging. The recurring caution is that the goods worth optimising for are often relational, not financial.
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Life Lessons on the Road
Travel presents a never-ending stream of problems to be solved: Which one of God’s creatures is staring up at me from my bowl, and what’s that wobbly pink bit?
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How to Make Friends as a Solo Traveler
The first stage of being a solo traveler is fear. I flew into Bangkok in the middle of a thunderstorm.
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The Best Things in Life Really Are Free
Free and cheap activities are just as fun as their spendy alternatives, and might even accidentally make you a better human being in the process.
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Hiking the Himalayas in Flip-Flops
Hiking the Annapurna Circuit in New Zealand's national footwear seemed like it would be a hilarious jape. After 150km of ice, snow and scree, not so much.
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Throw Away Your Television
TV wriggles into our heads and changes our brain function, our reward systems, our moods. Let's pluck out the parasite, and take back control of our lives.
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An Interview with Alain de Botton
The British philosopher speaks out on the curse of fame, the cruel expectations of self-help, and why we're all "hellish propositions".
