Tom Hodgkinson
Tom Hodgkinson
Tom Hodgkinsonis a British writer, and the editor of The Idler, which he established in 1993 with his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. His philosophy, in his published books and articles, is of a relaxed approach to life, enjoying it as it comes rather than toiling for an imagined better future. The Idler was originally a series of essays written by Dr Johnson from 1758 to 1760...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
boredom pleasure situation
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
sleep naps tough-times
When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
simple naps benefits
Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.
thinking people trying
I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.
nice shoes coworker
Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?
running kids games
My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.
people example london
One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?
dread
Travelling fills me with dread.
space giving car
When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.
real reading writing
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.
real boys views
Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.
naps weather eight
Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.
attitude ideas age
Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn't money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life.
depressing laughter sight
To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.