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Kids who are not exposed to a lot of advertising. (For face-to-face contact you need transportation, clothes, and stuff that makes you fit easily in the flow of a business work day.)Ģ. A job that does not require a lot of face-to-face contact. Sustainable minimalism requires a few things:ġ. People clap, and then you go back to stealing from plates on the dinner table.

They are not minimalists, they are just bachelors, programmed over thousands of years to use sex to accumulate possessions rather than shopping.Īnd anyone who is doing minimalist experiments-like not buying anything for a year, stuff like that-isn’t really a minimalist. Plus, I discredit all straight men who do not have a wife or kids and claim to be minimalists. (For example, losing all my possessions to bed bugs.) Second, I think a minimalist life is a product of many small decisions rather than a single big one. First of all, my own minimalism is totally accidental, so I didn’t even know I was a minimalist until recently. I have thought often about the slippery slope from minimalism to boring even though I don’t write about my own minimalism issues that much. It’s something that people think would be nice to dream about for their lives, but in fact, there is the dirty flip side to minimalism: It’s scary boring, which, I think, is why Leo moved his family to San Francisco-to expand what’s available to his kids. But I think minimalism is lifestyle porn. Leo has great resources on his blog about leading a minimalist lifestyle. So I am sure that his move to San Francisco means he is tossing in the minimalism towel. I told him that the biggest cultural shift for me from New York City to the farm is the surprise shift to extreme minimalism. Minimalism and he moved to San Francisco. I told Leo I thought it was BS that he is Mr. I would not have bought the book if it didn’t match my house so well. Totally eccentric, often over-furnished, but always totally interesting.

Leo babauta books full#

It’s full of photos of people who turned their apartments into art. So here is a picture of a book I just bought that is not Leo’s book, but I really like it: The Selby is in Your Place. The topic of the conversation was his new book, focus. I was talking with Leo Babauta a few weeks ago.