Introduction So I obviously never did that daily journal about my book tour. On one hand this means that I had a lot less writing to do over the course of the tour but…it also means I have to write a significantly longer post now. That’s the breaks, I suppose. This’ll be a pretty straightforward…
There’s an essay by an anarchist named Charles Johnson entitled Libertarianism Though Thick and Thin which discusses different complimentary features of the ideology. Should libertarians care about anti-racist struggles? Or is property rights and non-aggression the only things that matter? This is a great discussion and I encourage everyone who thinks that libertarians can’t be…
Someone yesterday, after I reported having a good day based on what I produced to teach me my “anti-work productivity ways” and here’s what I said: 1. Take breaks when you need them and as you need them 2. Reward yourself for anything done that you enjoyed doing and/or had to get done 3. If…
I didn’t know terribly much about this word or its history and even reading most or all of this Wikipedia entry I’m not sure how much I’m closer to getting much that is useful out of it. But it’s still pretty interesting how a words etymology and general meaning can shift with cultures and time. Here’s a few…
Growing up, I spent a good portion of many of my weekends mowing, edging, and weed-eating my family’s suburban lawn. My father believed that such activities taught me the value of hard work, and, more importantly, he did not want to do them himself. That said, he spent a fair bit of time and money…
(This article has been reprinted with permission from the author) No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost all the evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop…