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25 votes
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The life-ruining power of routines: Habits don’t lead to personal optimisation. They lead to suffering.
32 votes -
How Iceland takes better care of its foreign criminal offenders than the rest of Europe
9 votes -
Beatriz Flamini, the woman who spent five hundred days in a cave
17 votes -
Residents of Luleå, Sweden welcome new campaign encouraging them to say hello to each other during dark winter months
12 votes -
A vast northern European project is underway to combat isolation by promoting inclusion – we take a look at the results in Norway
9 votes -
IKEA has cut sick pay for unvaccinated workers, without mitigating circumstances, required to self isolate – retail giant acknowledged it was an emotive topic
23 votes -
A man emerges from a 75-day silent retreat in Vermont
21 votes -
For those who (privately) aspire to become more reclusive
12 votes -
Why this woman chooses to live in a ghost town
6 votes -
Virtual sex parties offer escape from isolation — if organizers can find a home
6 votes -
Iceland's forestry service has come up with a novel way to overcome the sense of isolation many people suffer because of Covid-19 – hug the trees
6 votes -
What it’s like to isolate with your girlfriend and her other boyfriend
17 votes -
What novel things can people do from home?
With the need for social distancing and self-isolation and #Stay(ing)TheFuckHome becoming near global realities, it is looking like many of us, and nearly everyone we know, will be spending large...
With the need for social distancing and self-isolation and #Stay(ing)TheFuckHome becoming near global realities, it is looking like many of us, and nearly everyone we know, will be spending large amounts of time staying in. I like this guide (thanks again, @aphoenix!), which ends with "Treat quarantine as an opportunity to do some of those things you never usually have time for."
Certainly we all have things in our life like that, but I also think it would be neat to try to brainstorm a list of things people can do for new experiences -- things they might not think to do or know are available to them. Everybody knows we can catch up on Netflix and our unread pile of books, but what else is out there? What can I do when I need a change of pace? What novel things can people do from home/online that don't require them to go out for resources/supplies?
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Work From Home (WFH) Thread - March 16th, 2020
I suspect many of you are, like me, working from home today and in the near future. I thought that it might be nice to have a single thread where we can chat about WFH and our day to day lives...
I suspect many of you are, like me, working from home today and in the near future. I thought that it might be nice to have a single thread where we can chat about WFH and our day to day lives while self-isolating in order to feel a bit less isolated. If people think this kind of thing is a good idea, perhaps this can be a daily (or weekly o_o) thread.
Feel free to talk about:
- Day to day life at home
- What's on your agenda for work
- Your thoughts on self-isolating and quarantine.
- Casual talk that you might normally have with coworkers .
- Anything else! (Though of course, the rest of the site still exists)
I personally tend to get more work done while working from home as there are less interruptions in the form of meetings and informal breaks. So in a weird way I'm looking forward to this time in order to get quite a bit done. Still, it's hard not to get cabin fever.
How are you all doing?
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The invisible city: How a homeless man built a life underground
10 votes -
Splendid isolation: How I stopped time by sitting in a forest for twenty-four hours
5 votes -
In Norilsk, Russia's most isolated major city, the arrival of high-speed internet gave residents a new window onto the world
9 votes -
Making friends with a stranger changed my life
8 votes -
It’s not just the isolation. Working from home has surprising downsides.
9 votes -
Why drinking can feel isolating when you have 'Asian glow'
16 votes -
Loneliness
41 votes -
Widow, 81, sole resident of remote island disputed by South Korea and Japan
3 votes -
Tales from the far-flung Faroes — The people who live on remote rocks in the North Atlantic
5 votes