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Jon Jandai on Making Life Simpler Through Self-Reliance

TEDx Talks · Talk · 15 min · 2011 · YouTube title: Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai | TEDxDoiSuthep
Why it's here

HN recommends it as a thoughtful counterpoint to the pursuit of complicated, consumption-driven lives.

What it covers

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.