The Minimalists

There’s a guy everyone knows. Let’s call him Car Guy…

Perhaps Joyce and Hemingway and Dostoevsky all shimmied out of the womb with a quill in hand, but alas I did not…

It is not ambition that sets a man apart: it is the distance he is prepared to go…

People have all sorts of clever words to describe what they want to do: Objective. Target. Plan. Endgame. Outcome. Goal. These days, instead of an arbitrary goals, I prefer to have a direction in which I travel…

Over the last few years, I’ve made a few dietary changes that have significantly improved my life…

Suffice it to say, our economy is already broken. This isn’t hard to see when we step out from among the pines and peer at the forest from a distance…

When you have less stuff your life changes. One of the nicest changes is the option to travel…

What is the first question we ask strangers? What’s the best way to answer?

We need to start thinking of organizing as a dirty word. It is a sneaky little profanity that keeps us from simplifying our lives…

I am not an expert—I just play one on the Internet. Or rather, I wasn’t an expert on anything, until I was…

My friends and I used to have this saying, “Take it to the river.” We all used lived to live together in an apartment on 11th Street. Whenever something went wrong or broke…

Collecting material possessions is not unlike hoarding. The word “collector” just sounds prettier than its alternative…

What if you spilled bleach on half your wardrobe? What would you do?

Decluttering is, by and large, a farce…

Roman students of Stoicism were often taught to practice that which they feared most, in order to experience the world that they were afraid of…