Posts tagged "note-to-self"

On Tools

I recently re-read The Anarchist’s Tool Chest (2nd edition) by Chris Schwarz. I resonate with the ethos. Buy good tools (good != new) and use them to build something.

Addicted to Easy

If I describe someone as “lazy”, what is the image that comes to mind? Is it a 300 pound man sitting on his couch with a coke and bag of chips? Lately, I have thought about being mentally lazy. In his great book, Comfort Crisis, Michael Easter writes about our addiction to comfort. What about comfort of the mind? We have the internet to feed us information until we explode with anxiety. “Experts” on countless podcasts to tell us how to think, move, and connect. Are we addicted to easy?