One Day Less
1/5/202651 min
The Minimalists talk about consumerism's role in workplace overload, what it takes to work fewer hours, the hidden reason grocery prices have increased, why certain 'Buy One, Get One Free' deals have been outlawed, and much more.
Discussed in this episode:
How does consumerism force us to work more hours each week, and what can we do about it? (6:43)
What would it take for you to work one less day per week? (26:03)
Right Here, Right Now: How to Write Better and the end of our Earthing grant. (42:53)
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:13
[singing] Every little thing you think that you need. Every little thing you think that you need. Every little thing that's just feeding your greed. Oh, I bet that you'll be fine without it.
Joshua Fields Millburn· Host0:37
Yes, welcome to The Minimalist Podcast, where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. My name is Joshua Fields Millburn, and joining me here at our beautiful studio in beautiful West Hollywood, California, is my good friend TK Coleman.
TK Coleman· Host0:53
Oh, it's a wonderful day to be alive.
Joshua Fields Millburn· Host0:55
Happy New Year to you, TK. It's our first episode of 2026. We got some of our favorite people in the studio with us today. Professor Sean's here. He has a monocle on right now and a tweed jacket with, uh, leather elbow patches because How to Write Better, our writing class he and I teach together, is, uh, it's opening for 72 hours. We'll talk about that in a bit, but that's why he's, uh, dressed to the nines- [laughs] ... like the professor that he is. Savvy D is on the board. He's taking notes over there, or maybe he's just drawing in a notebook. I'm not sure what he's