THE VIDEO SHELF · simple living
Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai | TEDxDoiSuthep
Thai farmer Jon Jandai talks about leaving Bangkok to farm and build his own house, arguing that food, shelter, clothing and medicine are easy to provide and that modern life is made needlessly complicated. He founded the Pun Pun Center for Self-reliance.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a thoughtful counterpoint to the pursuit of complicated, consumption-driven lives.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TEDx Talks
- Topic
- simple living
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2025
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From the original HN conversations
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Reminds me of this talk [VIDEO] and also happens to be my current mid-range goal. I've worked on a farm, gardened, and raised chickens growing up and I'm dead set on doing it again, the amount of work that goes into it vs. the amount …
pharke on Hacker News · 2015-04
In The Slow Death of the UniversityThat's an interest point! I'm going to find and read that. It reminded me of the guy from Thailand (TED Talk - linked below) who didn't understand why we make our lives so complicated when he can work for 2-3 months of the year and …
movedx on Hacker News · 2021-08
In The thing standing between procrastination and daily progress is ritual> And no, I don’t believe in the happy-life-in-the-forest. Jon Jandai moved from a village in rural Thailand to Bangkok, and took up a fulltime labouring job. He struggled to afford enough food to eat, slept in a shared room which was too hot, saved …
jodrellblank on Hacker News · 2025-02
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