Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.

What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.