Hi Friends-
If you missed the January launch of my new online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, registration is opening again on March 4th.
If you want to get a sweet discount when it does, be sure to sign up for the RESET email list. Or, just reply to this message and ask me to add you. ; )
In other news, on the latest episode of Hurry Slowly, I talk to one of my favorite internet friends Paul Jarvis about his new book Company of One, which is all about the benefits of deliberately staying small.
Our conversation is a pretty thorough debunking of the more-better-faster mentality as we delve into the dangerous allure of "vanity metrics," why staying small gives you more freedom, and the calming benefits of defining enough and setting "upper bounds."
Listen to "Paul Jarvis: Small Is Beautiful"
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p.s. I'm headed to Sydney, Australia as we speak. If any of you folks Down Under have bright ideas about what I should do or who I should meet, hit reply and let me know!
| | LINKS TO LOVE
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Who killed the weekend? I love the idea of a return to "serious leisure" in this piece from The Guardian: "A hobby is an activity undertaken purely for its own sake, but technology attempts to monetize it. A friend used to make beautiful earrings occasionally. Almost ritualistically, she would buy the beads, and carefully craft the small, colored jewels in a quiet workspace. Then came Etsy. Now she makes beautiful earrings and sells them, ships them and manages this business along with a full-time job and a family. What was leisure became labor."
The best thing you can do for your health is sleep well. If you need to be terrified into getting more shut-eye, this is the piece for you: "All it takes is one hour of lost sleep, as demonstrated by a global experiment performed on 1.6 billion people across more than 60 countries twice a year, otherwise known as daylight saving times. In the spring, when we lose one hour of sleep, there is a 24% increase in heart attacks the following day. In the autumn, we gain an hour of sleep opportunity, and there is a 21% reduction in heart attacks."
Does creative work free you from drudgery, or just security? A smart and sassy piece on the democratization of creativity: "For the privilege of doing 'creative' work, we are asked to accept conditions of financial anxiety and precariousness that in previous times were unthinkable to the gainfully employed. 'Creative' puts lipstick — or, more precisely, a pair of Warby Parker eyeglasses and a sleeve tattoo — on a pig. It dresses up a ruptured social compact, the raw deal of the gig economy, as bohemian freedom."
The communal mind. An incredible essay/fugue poem by Patricia Lockwood that mimics what it's like to be inside the Internet. Not for the faint of heart and NSFW: "I did not care about the Singularity, or the rise of the machines, or the afterlife of being uploaded into the cloud. I cared about the feeling that my thoughts were being dictated. I cared about the collective head, which seemed to be running a fever. But if we managed to escape, to break out of the great skull and into the fresh air, if Twitter was shut down for crimes against humanity, what would we be losing?"
+ I cut the "big five" tech giants from my life. It was hell.
+ Culture is what you do, not what you say.
+ Leaving room for the beautiful flowers.
+ Productivity trance.
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The curious animated gifs are from: Spiros Halaris, who's based in NYC.
Much appreciation for link ideas to: Kottke, Swissmiss, and Ann Friedman.
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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I created the online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, and I host Hurry Slowly — a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down. | | | | |
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