Explores our instinct for acquisitiveness, how it shapes saving, spending, and security, and the personal journey from fear and hoarding to community, balance, and living with enough in a world of environmental and social limits.
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Winter Update Part 4: Stories and Reflections
This is the last in our short series of updates of our activities over the past couple of months, this time focusing on the stories we have been
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Winter Update Part 3: Sailing, Cycling, and Slowing Down
While our lives have stayed firmly grounded at home these past months, a lot of time has gone into movement. Not the fast kind, but the deliberate, effortful
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Winter Update Part 2: Connecting with Community
Recently, we shared how we’ve been embracing simplicity and sustainability at home, growing food, repairing rather than discarding, and valuing what we keep. Today, we want to reflect
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Winter Update Part 1: Embracing Simplicity and Sustainability at Home
It’s been a while since we last had a personal check-in, and it feels like life has been a little too much about More! While our minds have
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Instincts 02: Altruism
In our first post on instincts, we explored the powerful drive of self-preservation and how it shapes our personal lives, relationships, and society. Now, we look beyond the
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Instincts 01: Self-Preservation
Of all the instincts we carry within us, self-preservation is the oldest and most fundamental. It is the force that kept our ancestors alive when predators stalked the
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Instincts 00: Getting a Handle on Our Nature
This is the first in a series of posts diving into human instincts and how they continue to play a huge role in our behaviour and decision making,
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How We Afford to Give: Taming Our Transport Costs
Our most popular content has been related to money and in particular how we manage to give away such a substantial portion of our income while working so
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Frugal Hedonism
hedonismnoun living and behaving in ways that mean you get as much pleasure out of life as possible, according to the belief that the most important thing in life