One thing we often forget to remember: how beautiful life can be without the constant stream of music, pictures, videos, data. I was travelling France. The landscapes were amazingly beautiful. We had lots of old and stinky cheese and i really fell in love with “thé du verveine”.

Beeing offline does not have to mean beeing pure analog. I had my IBM ThinkPad X31 with me, the best mobile computer ever made. After beeing disconnected from everything you find your thoughts tumbling and coming to peace. After a while everything seems so logic in the head and i instinctly knew what to do next. I did some good sketches in processing and had very good, satisfying thoughs. We all should from time to time make offline-holidays and hack our computers while beeing offline. More concentration and less effort, a higher state of thinking and a clear view of meaning is worth making the difference.

The Zen of making good design: pull the plug, reward concentration and intense design.