Nothing particularly earth shattering here. Reviews the arguments for materialism, the simple life, and minimalism, with a fair number of anecdotes. Plumps for something he calls experientalism, which (as he acknowledges) sounds like Facebook one-up-manship and seems to him to be at least partially a type of status-seeking. Accumulating experiences as a lifestyle feels to me oddly like parasitism.

The tone of my review may be due to an overload of books written for wistful MBAs, IT professionals, and bloggers who are tired of working in the corporate world.