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    Archive for 2011/08


    The Simplifier #6.15 is Online

    The one-hundred-thirty-fifth issue of the Project Simplify newsletter The Simplifier, titled “What’s Paying Rent on Your Desktop?”, is now archived on our newsletter archives page. Read the full issue here. Listen to the audio version here. Subscribe to The Simplifier here.

    Audio Version of The Simplifier #6.15

    Here is the audio edition of our newsletter The Simplifier Issue #6.15 – “What’s Paying Rent on Your Desktop?” NOTE: The links that are mentioned throughout this recording can be found in the web version of this newsletter. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (If you don’t see an audio player or link above, [...]

    The Not-So-Simple Life – Defining Simplicity

    by Lance Brown — It’s funny – I’ve written 36 columns about seeking simplicity over the course of a year and a half, and I have yet to define what simplicity means to me, and why I seek it. Obviously, the issue has come up indirectly more than once. Just in my last column, I [...]

    What’s Paying Rent on Your Desktop?

    Let’s talk about your Zone 1, which is your desktop (your physical desktop, not the digital one though same principles can be applied). For reference, the other Zones are: Zone 2 = reachable from your chair Zone 3 = in the office, have to get out of your chair Zone 4 = out of office [...]

    Where to put the instruction booklet?

    I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. My sister is such the Simplifier! I was at her house a couple of days ago for some concentrated pow-wowing on the Zones section of the online program. She had taken off for an appointment and I was ready for some caffeine. Not too long ago they [...]

    Take out the mental trash

    I want my own private trash collector. Not for my household trash. Waste Management, Inc already does that. I want someone (something?) to come take all the crap out of my head on a regular basis. This crap consists of: chatterbrain tendencies that fill my head with noise.for example: The constant commentary telling me things [...]

    A brag.

    I’m taking an online writing course with poet and ever fabulous human being, Molly Fisk. She’s been getting me to dive deeper and hang out longer in the depths beneath the surface. What’s there? What can I own up to that I’ve been afraid to thus far? Our most recent assignment was to brag about [...]


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