Things that start out as luxuries eventually become necessities in time. People in different circumstances have different needs but I think its worth looking at yourself and figuring out what you could live without – what luxury is creeping up on becoming a necessity. Then see if you couldn’t live without it.

The beautifully open and creative internet that we all love was designed, not out of sheer genius, but out of the constraints that forced it’s engineers to creatively make it work. As explained in The Master Switch by Tim WU, “The internet’s creators, mainly academics operating within and outside the government, lacked the power or ambition [...]