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Mark O'Connell

Splendid Isolation: How I Stopped Time by Sitting in a Forest for 24 Hours

After sitting alone in a forest and not moving for 24 hours, the author reflects on time, mortality, and turning 40.

Mark O'Connell Guardian Jan 2020 25min Permalink

Tech World

Why Silicon Valley Billionaires are Prepping for the Apocalypse in New Zealand

How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific

Mark O'Connell The Guardian Feb 2018 25min Permalink