One of the nice things that comes from publishing a book like REST is that it connects you with some pretty interesting readers. In the old days, this used to happen in slow motion: while I was researching REST, I spent a very happy couple days in the British Library, working through the papers of John Lubbock (who I introduce in this excerpt in Nautilis), and reading the letters sent to him by fans of his essay on the importance of rest.

British Library

Today, that connection happens a lot more quickly: I’ll see people following me on Twitter or Facebook. Which is how I found out about the work of Hyejin Kang, including this awesome piece, Sequence 01: