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RE: Are We Using Our Free Time to Shorten Our Lives?
Wow. This is very insightful, and has been my top gripe with how people are set up re: the rise of productivity, and only 7 votes? Damn. :-/
This whole thing is something that made me change my life style quite a bit.
Also, perhaps I should consider stuff from this article. Anyhow, I've encountered some of the things in the fiction I read, especially in that of Cory Doctorow (in For the Win, and in Makers, but actually in most of his work). I'll have to bookmark and re read this.
Thanks @xanoxt! This comment gives me hope. Maybe one day you'll share how you changed your lifestyle. :) I haven't read Cory Doctorow, but will check him out!
I sure will. Thing is, I've been working on it for last, hmm, let me think. Five years or so? That I am talking to you from a small town on the Russian/Mongolian border, instead being in office in Moscow, definitely quite different than in 2013 even, when I left my job and spent most of winter and spring in India. After that most of my work was either freelance or pro bono. After almost ten years of office jobs in Moscow it is quite different!
Stories that take years to tell are the best. I've got a few of those myself :). I've never been to India, though! How cool. I left the city office world, too. I grew up in cities and so this new life took some adjustment. I'll look forward to hearing your story one day.
Once I get back to civilization I'd write it. Maybe not the first thing, but somewhere in the top five. Personal stories are the the thing that separates steemit from a lot of other social media things, but so far there isn't much of me in my posts. Just photos.
On an unrelated note, I just learned that my idea with the links to meaningful stuff is working! Mr. Robinhoodwhale was invited via the link in my post about... Whales! :-D