Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time

“Time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so” wrote Douglas Adams, and two new books – “Saving Time: Discovering a life beyond the clock” by Jenny Odell and Hanging Out: The radical power of killing time by Sheila Liming – take a similarly relaxed attitude to the most precious resource we have.

The lost art of letter writing

We’ve lived in an age of email and text messages for the last twenty years, and AI powered chatbots will now write and read our emails for us in the future, but for all we’ve gained in terms of convenience we’ve lost in terms of the care, thought and lasting emotional resonance of an old-fashioned letter.