I'm currently implementing changes in my life to improve my overall well-being. I had heard the term lindy before, but you've reframed it for me as a metric to look for when choosing new habits to implement.
As I get older, I move inexorably in this direction – never the reverse. There's something interesting there, that with a buildup of experience and wisdom, we see through the fakeness and futility of the "easy" stuff constantly around us. And we value the enduring, the natural, the things that with age seem obvious that we should value.
I can fully concur about WFH—it’s made a huge difference to my personal and family life.
I’ve been working from home since 2016, well before COVID and the wider acceptance of remote work. I resigned in 2015 from a London hedge fund, primarily because I couldn’t reconcile spending 2.5 hours every day commuting, only to sit in front of a screen and keyboard and log in to a remote computer. All while wearing noise-canceling earmuffs 95% of the time, in a shared office with 50–60 people that was perpetually freezing.
All of that has been replaced with a modest, half-glass garden office at the bottom of my garden and a solid broadband connection. Bliss. Here’s hoping I’ll never have to set foot in an office again. Fingers crossed. 🤞
The reality of human existence is that how we live has changed radically over our journey. There are no specifics about how we live that have lasted more than a beat in the time we've existed! Yearning for a prior way of life is fine, but it's nor clear that it's better.
We are adaptable and that has always been the human strength. Modern life is just the next phase of adaptation, and we'll figure it out.
Sure, but we don't evolve faster than our biology, so for ex the obesity crisis is a result of people living in the wrong ways via lifestyle presented to us. I am included in that and lost >20 pounds once I decided to live a more aligned way with our evolution and eat differently. And look, am honestly not against the market selling us whatever we want, companies should be free to do that, but it doesn't mean you have to go along with it just bc it provides short term pleasure (in moderation is fine, if you can!).
My only disagreement is the working from home thing. I prefer the separation, at least as an employee, maybe it could be different if I ran my own business. Also I get easily distracted. At home I have my guitars and books, probably not a good place to do actual income producing work. It's a little like why I'd make a bad cocaine dealer - I'd end up my best customer.
Yours is one of the sober journeys I have watched and am going to try to follow. Last night was my first dry New Year’s Eve in decades. Cheers Adam
Congrats Tom, you got this
I'm currently implementing changes in my life to improve my overall well-being. I had heard the term lindy before, but you've reframed it for me as a metric to look for when choosing new habits to implement.
As I get older, I move inexorably in this direction – never the reverse. There's something interesting there, that with a buildup of experience and wisdom, we see through the fakeness and futility of the "easy" stuff constantly around us. And we value the enduring, the natural, the things that with age seem obvious that we should value.
I can fully concur about WFH—it’s made a huge difference to my personal and family life.
I’ve been working from home since 2016, well before COVID and the wider acceptance of remote work. I resigned in 2015 from a London hedge fund, primarily because I couldn’t reconcile spending 2.5 hours every day commuting, only to sit in front of a screen and keyboard and log in to a remote computer. All while wearing noise-canceling earmuffs 95% of the time, in a shared office with 50–60 people that was perpetually freezing.
All of that has been replaced with a modest, half-glass garden office at the bottom of my garden and a solid broadband connection. Bliss. Here’s hoping I’ll never have to set foot in an office again. Fingers crossed. 🤞
Great article Adam! I've been adopting some of these practices and they do make a difference. I hope more people catch up to them this year.
Excellent. Thanks!
Reminded me of Rodney Dangerfield taking a dive.
https://youtu.be/4VDry9fy8UE?si=rJlLPmmjKUNM3029
Great stuff Adam, happy new year!
The reality of human existence is that how we live has changed radically over our journey. There are no specifics about how we live that have lasted more than a beat in the time we've existed! Yearning for a prior way of life is fine, but it's nor clear that it's better.
We are adaptable and that has always been the human strength. Modern life is just the next phase of adaptation, and we'll figure it out.
Sure, but we don't evolve faster than our biology, so for ex the obesity crisis is a result of people living in the wrong ways via lifestyle presented to us. I am included in that and lost >20 pounds once I decided to live a more aligned way with our evolution and eat differently. And look, am honestly not against the market selling us whatever we want, companies should be free to do that, but it doesn't mean you have to go along with it just bc it provides short term pleasure (in moderation is fine, if you can!).
Love this message for starting the year. Thanks & cheers
“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
If we are to stray from how we evolved to live, let it be grounded in science and reason.
My only disagreement is the working from home thing. I prefer the separation, at least as an employee, maybe it could be different if I ran my own business. Also I get easily distracted. At home I have my guitars and books, probably not a good place to do actual income producing work. It's a little like why I'd make a bad cocaine dealer - I'd end up my best customer.