A lot goes on at my desk. Most of it irretrievably unproductive by any standard measure. It is a place of mind-wandering, planning, ruminating, rabbit hole investigating, procrastinating and uncritical thinking.

We have just purchased a simple foam sofa bed on the pretext that it will be easily available should we have guests staying over. It now sits right behind my desk. And in sofa form, the reality is I now have a perfect Pomodoro set up.

1. 25 minutes desk time (see above)
2. 40 minutes nap time.
3. Repeat.

–ooOoo–

If, like me, you are a book voyeur, you will be squinting to read the titles in the background. I have a lot of books crammed into two bookcases on either side of my desk. They spill out onto the desk and pile up on the floor, which is exactly how it should be.

Just to help preserve your eyesight, here is the list of books in the photo (from left to right). If this does not satisfy your book scopophilia, let me know in the comments. If anyone requests it, I will photograph the rest of my bookcases!

1. The Matter With Things (Volume I and II) Ianin McGilchrist
2. Zen’s Chinese Heritage. Andy Ferguson
3. Science Ideated. Bernardo Kastrup
4. Quantum Enigma. Rosenblum and Kuttner.
5. A book of Luminous Things. Czeslaw Milosz
6. No Recipie. Cooking as spiritual practice. Edward Espe Brown.
7. Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics. Bernardo Kastrup.
8. Why Materialism Is Baloney. Bernardo Kastrup..
9. The Essence of Chan. Guo Gu
10. The Essential W.S. Merwin.
11. Dogens’s Gengokoan. Various authors.
12. Brief Peeks Beyond. Bernardo Kastrup.
13. Being-time. Shinshu Roberts.
14. The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen.
15. A place in Space. Gary Snyder.
16. The Five Ranks of Zen. Gerry Shishin wick.
17. Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell. Bernardo Kastrup.
18. Walden. Henry David Thoreau.
19. I Ching. Richard Wilheim.
20. The Creative Act. Rick Rubin.