The Do Nothing Project Live Broadcast

PS – If you want to get an emailed reminder of the DNP with the link to join, then be sure to sign up to my Substack page, Home Base. Here’s a Washington Post column on the Do Nothing Project. 

Why join us?

The world is filled with so many interesting things! People doing stuff, going places, making things happen. It’s all very exciting.

This is not about any of that. Welcome to The Do Nothing Project. An experiment in … not much. Together.

How does it work? You can either watch it on your browser, or on the Substack app. On the first Sunday of the month, the DNP is free for everyone. The other Sundays of the month are for paid subscribers to Home Base at homebasewithjeff.com. Either way, you need to subscribe to Substack to get the link.

What is the Do Nothing Project all about?

After a few words of greeting, I or a guest host guide a minimalist 25-minute meditation that you can feel free to ignore. The time can be used to meditate, to doodle, or to stare vacantly into space muttering ‘the humanity.’

The whole thing has a fine community feel, with people from around the world accomplishing nothing together. If you come to the broadcast later, it gets archived the next day on my Substack – here – and sometimes on YouTube. 

Of course, one could argue the moment we implement a meditation technique we are in fact doing something, but let’s not quibble. We are after directionally more of nothing than our previous moments of something.  

Of course I have no idea. I could go into a dull rant about the unconscious violence of our over-caffeinated workaholic culture (for which I am Exhibit A), but really, who has time for it?

Let’s just say: because it will be a training in equanimity. Because every episode will be a low-key surprise. Because it’s good to sit in community – near and far – and do mostly nothing. Together.

Hope to see you soon.

Jeff