August 2009

Say it with less

When it comes to speaking, writing, emails, tweets, instant messages, whatever – we often say more than we need to.  Services like Twitter help with that, with the 140 character limit.  But no such limits exist when talking to another human in real life, or composing an email.  Since limits aren’t built in, you need [...]

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One in Two Out

Once you’ve made the decision to live a simpler life, the hard work begins. You can’t live by the popular “One in One Out” rule. That rule stipulates that for every single thing you bring into your home, you need to get rid of one. Since you’ve just made the decision to live more simply, [...]

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iPhone contribues to a simple life

Often when it comes to gadgets, complexity is the result. Too many features that aren’t useful stuffed into devices that we don’t really need. That’s not going to help us live a simple life. So why do I say that an iPhone can help you live a simple life? For one, chances are pretty good [...]

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Minimalist Links

Stumbling through the tubes we call the Internet sometimes brings me to interesting minimalist style items. Here are a couple of the more notable items that I’ve seen this week: This is the Zero Bike, created back in 1988 by students at the Art Center College of Design. Via Minimalissimo. How can you make a [...]

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Simplicity Defined

For some, simplicity means living in a cave, eating the plants that grow outside the cave. No mortgage, job, electricity, cars, or anything of the sort. Just hanging out in a cave enjoying the world. Or at least the cave part of it. To others, simplicity means living in the real world, but without many [...]

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Get rid of Push Email

One of the most important inventions in the business world is that of Push Email. Millions of Blackberry users have enjoyed instant notification of emails for years now. Productivity has soared, and everyone lived happily ever after. Right? Well, not quite. Everytime your Blackberry ( or Treo, or iPhone, etc ) goes bleep, you stop [...]

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