Doing less, on purpose In a world drunk on productivity, we choose to stay sober. In an age that worships speed, we dare to move slowly. This is not a rejection of progress, but a reclamation of our humanity. This is Luddlife.
Luddlife is a small blog with a new essay every day. Each one is a short story from an ordinary week. They're about resting without feeling guilty for it , knowing when you have enough , the small pleasures nobody counts , the phone in your hand , and the Sunday night feeling that Monday has already started . Nobody here will ask you to get up at five.
Start with the questions people ask or the manifesto , take a free idler's guide , twelve pages long, or read how Luddlife began . The essays are below, newest first.
20 Oct, 2026
Nobody Had Given Him a Time
19 Oct, 2026
A Crossword in Pen, or Doing Things Scared
18 Oct, 2026
Coins Only: Why It's Easier to Talk to Strangers
17 Oct, 2026
See You Sunday
16 Oct, 2026
Some of It Is Rent: The List That Keeps Me Up
15 Oct, 2026
Last Year's Worry, Underlined Three Times
14 Oct, 2026
A Box to Tick for Doing Less
13 Oct, 2026
Bold Since June, the Email I Never Answered
12 Oct, 2026
The Argument I Kept Replaying on the Walk Home
11 Oct, 2026
Sunday Night Dread and a Monday That Can't Act
10 Oct, 2026
Checking a Dead Phone Eleven Times Before Four
09 Oct, 2026
Plans Cancelled, Still Wearing One Shoe
08 Oct, 2026
Toast on a Plate, or Enjoying the Little Things
07 Oct, 2026
Asked What I Do, I Answered Tomatoes
06 Oct, 2026
Busy for Nobody, or Feeling Guilty for Resting
29 Aug, 2025
The Leisure Paradox
23 Aug, 2025
The Art of Necessary Absences
31 Jan, 2025
Finding Time in Winter's Quiet
28 Jan, 2025
Time You Can Touch: Musings on Watches
25 Jan, 2025
In Praise of the Empty Hour
23 Jan, 2025
Finding Freedom in Forced Disconnection
21 Jan, 2025
Sacred Minutes: The Tiny Pilgrimage
17 Jan, 2025
Morning Hours: A Quiet Rebellion Before Work
15 Jan, 2025
Love Letter to My Phone: On Absence
11 Jan, 2025
Notes from the Kitchen Sink
09 Jan, 2025
The Art of Mental Fishing
05 Jan, 2025
Sunday Evening Melancholy