Writing in Otium

Novotia is a place for unhurried, thoughtful living through writing. Essays, reflections, and conversations that take ideas seriously and follow them wherever they lead. Topics range from technology and philosophy to history, culture, and the examined life. Some pieces are polished. Others are thoughts in progress.

Novotia takes its name from Cicero’s otium—the cultivated leisure of the thoughtful life. Not idleness, but the freedom to read, reflect, converse, and write without urgency. Otia is the plural form, pointing to a series of contemplative interludes in conversation with each other. The nov- prefix acknowledges that this is otium for a new age; one in which the conversation sometimes includes a machine. The name is invented, but the tradition is old. ¹

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