How to Cut Your Hair with a Knife: The Ultimate Guide to Minimalist Grooming

We mentioned this in one of our previous posts and we have received many emails asking when this tutorial will be released. Well, today is your lucky day! We are going to show you how to cut your hair with a knife, the most minimalist way possible. Minimalism isn’t about living with fewer material possessions, or jettisoning your car and television, or traveling all over the world. No, minimalism is about reducing everything to its necessary elements, even your hair....

March 15, 2023 · 3 min · 494 words · Minimalist Living

How I Became a Minimalist by Breathing Only Pure Oxygen

Hello, fellow minimalists. Today I want to share with you my journey of becoming a minimalist by breathing only pure oxygen. I got a twelve pack of that pure oxygen. That gas you can only find at 21% concentration in Earth’s atmosphere. I’m breathing on Mexican shadow lab hyperbaric medical grade oxygen. They extracted this with the cryogenic distillation of 2000 liters of liquid air. Stuff’s so pure it should be asking me “Where’s your oximeter?...

March 15, 2023 · 3 min · 487 words · Minimalist Living

Minimalist Living: A Serious Blog for Serious People

Hello, this is Mark, one of the three members of Minimalist Living, the blog that teaches you how to live with less and be happier. I’m writing this post to address some of the emails we have received from some of our readers who seem to not understand the point of our blog. Some of these emails accuse us of “schizo-posting”, which is a term I had to look up on Urban Dictionary....

March 11, 2023 · 3 min · 634 words · Minimalist Living

Why C is Better Than C++: Minimalist Perspective

Are you tired of writing code that is slow, buggy, unreadable, unmaintainable, and unportable? Do you want to simplify your life and embrace the beauty of minimalism? Are you tired of all the hype and buzzwords surrounding modern programming languages? Do you feel overwhelmed by the plethora of frameworks, libraries, and paradigms that claim to make your life easier? Do you wish you could go back to the good old days of simple and elegant code that just works?...

March 11, 2023 · 3 min · 527 words · Minimalist Living

Why It's Called Linux and Not GNU/Linux

If you are a minimalist, you probably know that less is more. Less clutter, less stress, and less waste — but do you know what else is less? Linux. Yes, Linux is the operating system that powers most of the internet and many of your devices. Linux is better than GNU/Linux because it has fewer letters, fewer syllables, and fewer problems. Let me explain. GNU/Linux is a term coined by Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project....

March 10, 2023 · 3 min · 514 words · Minimalist Living