Sometimes it seems you can’t do anything right. On the one hand we have the excellent Mr. Money Mustache saying, “you need to get the news out of your life, right away, and for life.” On the other, an apparently interesting book written by intelligent people tells us we’re getting something called the wellness syndrome from trying…
If you’re daft enough to read this blog regularly, you’ll have heard me mention that I’ve been looking for a way to give to charity regularly, within my limited means (I study part-time) and without concentrating on one or a couple of causes to the exclusion of all others. I think we should donate either time…
If you take a look at my blogroll, you’ll see that not all the blogs I read are in English. This week I’d like to share with you a post from a Russian-language blog written by Anastasiya Milkova called O bogatstve, which translates literally as About wealth. It’s an excellent blog with a down-to-earth approach…
Last week, completely by chance, I stumbled across a radio programme called Unreliable Evidence. It was a discussion programme about what the participants dubbed a “Good Samaritan law”: a law that would make it compulsory to come to someone else’s aid in certain situations and a criminal offence to, well, walk by on the other…
Happy New Year! I hope you had a great Christmas and a good start to the new year, despite recent events. When I got back home after my own winter break, I found 2015’s first edition of the ITI Bulletin waiting for me. In it was an article called A world of change, compiled by Ros…
Danger can lurk in even the most mundane situations, as you can see here. More seriously, everyday things have an effect in the long run, so it’s worth making sure they’re healthy. I haven’t always thought this way. Not that long ago, if I noticed I was slouching – especially at the computer – or…
If you’re anything like me, you probably think you’re not really taken in by advertising. That’s what I usually think, but every now and then I’m jolted into thinking otherwise. Most recently, after a rare half-hour spent watching TV – I’m one of the few people who try to watch more TV rather than less…
I wrote last week about the electronic fixes that, given half a chance, will suck away your precious time. My own experiment in not mindlessly surrendering to them is still ongoing, but I’ve already noticed it can be surprisingly hard to resist the compulsion to check in, even when I’m short of time and there…
Back in the mists of time when I was at university, I had a friend who was constantly snowed under by her studies. She complained that she had no time to sleep, go out, eat or relax. She was indignant that her degree course gave her no time for anything except studying, and as you…
Some people seem always to have had their heads screwed on properly where money’s concerned. For instance, Mr Money Mustache and the guy behind Brave New Life either retired or switched to part-time work in their 30s with their mortgages already paid off. I, on the other hand, am 35 and hoping to take out…
