I Used to Be Impressed by People Who Had a Lot of Money — But Now I’m Impressed by People Who Have a Lot of Free Time
I liked mattering. I can live with less money and with “regular” cars and without a job title ... it’s very possible to live a very nice life without those things. But mattering ... yeah, I miss that. I want to figure out how to matter again1. Let’s put a pin in that one, consider it a work in progress.
Tom Pendergast • Retirement: Freedom or Free-Fall?
New Status Symbols
• Sabbaticals
• Long attention spans
• Quality time with kids
• Valuing time over money
• Slow and calm lifestyle
• Meeting-free calendar
• Having “enough”
• Early retirement
• Biological... See more
Michael Karnjanaprakornx.comWe have inherited from all this a deeply bizarre idea of what it means to spend your time off “well”—and, conversely, what counts as wasting it. In this view of time, anything that doesn’t create some form of value for the future is, by definition, mere idleness. Rest is permissible, but only for the purposes of recuperation for work, or perhaps... See more