- Simplest tool for the job
- Offline over online
- Plain text over encoded representations
- Email over complex messaging platforms
- Letters/calls over short text interchanges
- Mindfulness in lieu of mobile devices
- Cognitive development over assistive (mobile) aids
- Minimal dependencies (ex: cloud, complex tools)
- Minimal design
- Minimal superfluous needs, objects, commitments
- Sporadic usage of graphics
- Semi-functional yet effective rather than the fully-functional but never released
- Natural foods over processed/synthetic
- Sour over sweet
- Freedom of language use (and abuse); not catered to the lowest common denominator.
- Language assimilation. Nothing of ‘mine’ vs ‘not mine’.
- Cultural bias avoidance
- Physical movement over motorized transport
- Body training foundation: stretching, squats, abdominals, push-ups, pull-ups
- Anticipation and domestication of discomfort
- Anti-complaining; energize, not drain.
- Don’t treat the ephemeral too seriously
Related
- Simple solutions
- Minimal dependencies and workload abstraction
- Language assimilation
- Cultural biases
- The ephemeral and minimalism
- Physical movement
- Stoicism notes
- Focus on the core, independent components
- On constructive conversations
- List of ways to be indifferent
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