The Right to be Lazy
There's a new edition of the late 19th-century classic The Right to Be Lazy, by socialist Paul Lafargue, and critic Lily Meyer writes about it in The Atlantic. Lafargue
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, REST, and the four-hour day
One of the central arguments I make in my book REST is that when they have a lot of control over their time, highly accomplished people tend to
Cal Newport on shorter working hours and the future of knowledge work
Knowledge workers of the world, unplug! Cal Newport has a piece in the New York Times about Lasse Rheingans, shorter working hours, and the future of work. Newport
Eating together at work and in negotiations
In the interviews I've done with leaders and workers at companies that have implemented shorter workweeks, I often hear-- in the smaller places at least-- that they eat
“the key to his fantastic work… was that he was phenomenally boring”
Sophie Beck's essay on Joan Miró gets at something important: I came to believe that the key to his fantastic work, to the sheer volume of work—he kept
Sick days and overwork vs shorter hours
The New York Times has a piece about "The Death of the Sick Day," about how the sick day is disappearing from the office vocabulary, even as we
“We can hack our technologies, and even our societies, so why not ourselves?”
Samuel Arbesman writes in The Atlantic about " The Hubris of Biohacking: this hacking ethos relies on the idea that if people can just collect more data to
Creative professionals are overworked (surprise!)
According to Fast Company, A new survey suggests creative professionals are being asked to do more work in less time–and it’s taking a toll. The survey found that
Lin-Manuel Miranda: “I should take more vacations”
the room where it happens! It's always worth repeating: Lin-Manuel Miranda came up with the idea for Hamilton while taking his first vacation since In the Heights. Now
Saiid Kobeisy talks about the importance of rest in Vogue Arabia
One of the greatest things about a book like REST is that it goes all kinds of places I don't, and gets picked up by all kinds of