Hello again, I find it amusing and a little bemusing to think that we human beings come delivered, pre-packaged, with everything we need to live a contented, peaceful and purposeful life, and then pretty quickly we adopt everything we need to fuck it all up. Others have said that more […]
Crowded House – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
A couple of thousand years ago or thereabouts the Roman Stoics practised a mental exercise (as in, for the mind; not as in, my mate Jonny puts ketchup on everything—he’s so mental) as an antidote to what’s much more recently been termed ‘hedonic adaptation.’ We’ll return to the Stoics shortly, […]
300 – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
Hello again. You’re probably aware of the 10,000 hours “rule” made famous by Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers. Practise something for 10,000 hours, the theory goes, and you become a master. Well, it turns out, a little disappointingly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, to be a big old oversimplification. Ten thousand hours of […]
Gibberish and Neep – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
I can’t remember now if he preferred to call it gibberish or gobbledygook – I’ve gone with the former because I like how it makes my title sound like a fancy beverage or an incompetent law firm – but my dad, Stephen, liked to conduct full conversations in nonsense. We’d […]
5 Powerful Natural Anti-Aging Shortcuts
Years ago, the word “anti aging” seemed to come only from science fiction movies. People joked about the Fountain of Youth and miracle medicines that were supposed to reverse the aging process to make one look 10 or 20 years younger. But today, anti-aging is more than a myth. Through […]
5 Ways to Declutter Your Mind
5 Ways to Declutter Your Mind When it comes to decluttering your home, there’s a simple solution: put everything on eBay (this is a bit oversimplified, but it’s possible, isn’t it?). Yet, when it comes to decluttering your mind, it’s not really possible to unload your thoughts onto eager internet […]
Rupture + Repair – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
Rupture is an inevitable part of life. In fact, life can’t fully begin without it: the primal rupture of the baby from its mother. Until birth, the baby and its mother live in a state of symbiosis. And then from one emerges two. But almost immediately, as long as both […]
Love Actually – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
Hi everyone, This week’s piece has been on my mind for a while. I’ve known I wanted to write something to mark the year since my dad died, but I haven’t known what. The temptation is to go all Richard Curtis and sentimental. And he’d have liked that. He couldn’t […]
What Are You Thinking?! – Jake Russell – Cobsalad
Do you ever think about how much time you spend thinking? Or to be specific—how much time you spend thinking without thinking you’re thinking? Because when we begin to examine it, we quickly see that we get so lost in thought we don’t even know we’re thinking. Which has got […]
How To Raise Your Own Backyard Chickens – FREE EBOOK
What You Need To Know About Commercial Poultry Farming And How To Raise Your Own Backyard Chickens Commercial agriculture is an essential infrastructure, providing billions of people with daily sustenance. In this regard, poultry production is no different. However, chicken factory-farms have a long history of abuses, violations, and questionable […]
