Three extra hours a day

Brian Lam on finding happiness after absorbing too much Internet as a too-busy website editor.

With my three extra hours a day, I will often go to the beach. Cook a healthy meal. Do a bunch of exercise. Have a drink with friends. Read a book. Write a poem. Mow the lawn. Go skiing while checking my email from the chair lift. Visit a museum. Get into my van at 10pm at night and drive to Joshua Tree by morning without worrying about having an editor to report to. My van has a bed, a stove, a closet, a fridge and and auxiliary battery, 4g modem and my laptop. I can work from the desert, the beach, the mountains, reception withstanding. My life has never been fuller and I've never been more meaningfully connected. I'm not making as much money as I was before with my hyper intense news job, and I might run out of money and need to work at McDonalds one of these days, but for now I'm using Airbnb to pay my mortgage and it's working out just fine. It's a little scary at times, but I'm going to keep going with it.

• [tristan eldritch]

  “I fear technology not because I think it’s evil, but because it’s too easy to start clicking and never stop, even if the stream of data starts to go from meaningful to useless after the top 5%.”

  So true.  I knew I’d hit rock bottom when I sat up late one night clicking through the entirety of a Life photo gallery entitled “Babes of the 80s: Then and Now.”  Don’t even know whatever commodius vicus of recirculation brought me there in the first place.

  • [Jim Saul]

    “Babes of the 80s: Then and Now.” 

    Link?

    • [retepslluerb]

      http://www.life.com/gallery/62421/image/84915663/babes-of-the-80s-then-and-now#index/0

      I stopped at Kelly Le Brock Then.

      • [Jim Saul]

        Well, I was just kidding, but now I have to see if it’s the half-shirt and fog machine weird science promo with the kids wearing bras on their heads, or the skirt-blown-up “woman in red” promo with Gene Wilder looking dreamily at her.

• [nosehat]

  Not a lot of comments in this tread.  Not surprising.  ;)

  His “with my three extra hours a day” list reminds me of my annual new years resolutions.  I wonder if he’ll post a follow up, and let us know how easy it was.

  Great article by the way.  He really nails some very annoying trends in content!

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