The Minimalists

Suffice it to say, our economy is already broken. This isn’t hard to see when we step out from among the pines and peer at the forest from a distance…

When you have less stuff your life changes. One of the nicest changes is the option to travel…

What is the first question we ask strangers? What’s the best way to answer?

We need to start thinking of organizing as a dirty word. It is a sneaky little profanity that keeps us from simplifying our lives…

I am not an expert—I just play one on the Internet. Or rather, I wasn’t an expert on anything, until I was…

My friends and I used to have this saying, “Take it to the river.” We all used lived to live together in an apartment on 11th Street. Whenever something went wrong or broke…

Collecting material possessions is not unlike hoarding. The word “collector” just sounds prettier than its alternative…

What if you spilled bleach on half your wardrobe? What would you do?

Decluttering is, by and large, a farce…

Roman students of Stoicism were often taught to practice that which they feared most, in order to experience the world that they were afraid of…

It’s easy to pretent we’re in control of every aspect of our lives. Societal norms and tireless advertisements reinforce this message: you run the show, life is what you make of it, have it your way. You are the sovereign king of your own bite-sized kingdom. But…

The last nine months have birthed a new Joshua and Ryan. We have grown immensely since last Thanksgiving when we decided to embark on a 5-leg, 33-city meetup tour. It was an irreplicable experience, something we’ll likely never get to do again…

I conduct countless experiments…

We all have the same 24 hours in a day. And yet, often, we neglect other people’s time…

More often than not, we don’t change because we get in our own way…