A broadly categorized, work in progress list of my favourite books:

Sustainability

1. Building a Better World in Your Backyard Instead of Being Angry at the Bad Guys by Paul Wheaton & Shawn Klassen-Koop
2. The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka

Self Improvement

3. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
4. The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan & Benjamin Hardy
5. Stoicism for Inner Peace by Einzelgänger

Fantasy

6. Ranger’s Apprentice Series by John Flanagan (also Brotherhood series)
7. The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
8. Drachenreiter by Cornelia Funke

Sailing

9. Sailing the Farm by Kenneth Neumeyer
10. Get Real, Get Gone by Rick Page & Jasna Tuta
11. Den Wind im Gepäck by Marc Bielefeld

Philosophical and other stuff

12. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
13. Le Petit Prince by Antoint de Saint-Exupéry
14. Sand, Wind and Starts by Antoint de Saint-Exupéry
15. Im Westen Nichts Neues by Erich Maria Remarque

Zen

16. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (English Translation by Jonathan Star)
17. Practical Zen: Meditation and Beyond by Julian Daizan Skinner

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1. Install an RSS reader app like Feeder (Android) or Feedly (iOS)
2. Add a feed. Mine is always linked to at the bottom of the page (RSS).

We get way too much unnecessary information shoved down our throats. A sane mind is more easily achieved if we just consume what we actually signed up for.

Many news and podcast sites also offer RSS links. The world of RSS is your oyster.

Welcome to minimare.quest, a simple static site about my journey into a simpler, more resilient and sustainable life. I will talk about tech, natural farming and eventually sailing. Most of the things I write about have a philosophical background.

Why a blog?

• I have some things to share.
• Static sites are cool.

Background

Ever since I first read Masanobu Fukuoka’s book about natural farming (The One-Straw Revolution), I’ve been drawn away from the realm of technociety towards a more resilient way of life. We are children of Nature. Recent developements make us forget that. I’ve never achieved as sane a mind as during prolonged stays in Nature.