• Louis C.K.’s decision-making rule Making decisions is a theme on this site. It’s a theme in my life as I grapple with the confidence, laissez faire-ness, certainty and surrender inherent in good decision-making. Today I share brilliant US comedian Louis C.K.’s approach. He, too, grapples with the descent into despair that decision-making can induce. He’s developed a 70 Per more
• how to make easier decisions I love this article on why easy decisions are so hard by the ludicrously young and authentic Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust was a Neuroscientist. I’ve mentioned it here on this blog a lot…that I struggle to make the simplest of decisions, like what toothpaste to buy. And other such”first-world problems”. more
• how to build a better blog (part 2-ish) One day I started a blog. I didn’t know where it would head. I spewed forth and it grew like a virus. I just wanted to share things. Like all things with technology, it moved faster than I was able to adjust. So, truth be known, it’s not really what I thought it would be. more
• sunday life: the secret to happiness (a chat with Gretchen Rubin) This week I get happy…close to home Gretchen Rubin calls it her “Beautiful House” moment. As in, “This is not my beautiful house”, the existential lament from the Talking Heads hit “Once in a Lifetime”. Gretchen’s life was ticking along just fine. She had a beautiful house. Two kids. And all the rest. But she more
• sunday life: in which a girl falls in love with a single-speed bike This week I go streamlined on a single-speed bike You might’ve noticed everyone’s into “simplifying”. It’s very recessional chic right now. People from all walks are chucking stuff out and packing up what’s left to go live in Bali. Or on a goat farm. Luxury car manufacturers and banks are flogging simplicity in their advertising more
• this is how i started today… …down at Bondi, a quick sand run and a float in the ocean, looking up at the sky and getting into the right mood for the day. This has been my routine for years. I’ve watched one woman, in this time, get pregnant and – bounce back again – twice!! There’s the over-tanned older lady more
• sunday life: the joy of outsourcing your eating issues So, this week, in my journey to find a better life, I outsource my eating. Now, tell me if I have this right.  You’re feeling fat. No, it’s more than that. You feel stodged up and toxic and traffic has ground to a sluggish, cranky crawl down there. Grandma’s mince pies and sustained cheap champagne more
• declutterbug #2: suicide machine (social network annihilation via a little red button) Check out this new online gizmo. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine allows you to wipe yourself from social networking. Forever. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine can strike you off Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. At the press of a button. As the site says,  be as free as a real bird. A 2010 resolution, perhaps? To free more
• sunday life: perfect lists This week I write a perfect list.I find there are two schools of thought on to-do lists. The first says they’re a necessary dumping ground for shower inspirations and must-do minutiae (“fix rear-vision mirror”, “buy Napisan”)…all the noisy guff that swirls unanchored in your head. Ergo, lists are liberating devices that free the mind and more
• sunday life: in which i declutter my books This week I had a good hard think about why I have kept an unread copy of Tolstoy’s War and Peace on my bookshelf for 17 years.  This small awakening prompted a frenzied decluttering of dead wood*. Small awakenings can do this. I’ve been on a decluttering mission lately. This latest chapter was prompted by more