“Feierabend” and routines during remote work
In a recent Financial Times piece, I made the case for the importance of routines in helping us be productive and happy. In particular, those of us working
Harris Poll on the popularity of the 4-day week
The Harris Poll's CV19 Tracker recently included some questions about the 4-day week, and they provide a snapshot of American attitudes toward the idea of a shorter week:
“we have to detach money from time”
You're probably familiar with books like David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and Peter Fleming's The Death of Homo Economicus, which talk about how in the modern economy, the problems
The amazing Gongpyeong Historic Sites Museum
About a mile from the Gyeongbokgung Palace, in the basement of a skyscraper, is one of the most remarkable museums I’ve ever visited: the Gongpyeong Historic Sites Museum.
Gyeongbokgung Palace
Sunday morning I hopped on the metro and headed over to Gyeongbokgung Palace, the biggest of the several Joeson era palaces in Seoul. It’s a super-popular location for
The gendered consequences of “Do what you love”
The Atlantic has an article arguing that our belief that you should be passionate about your work has the unintended effect of discouraging women from working if they
Keep Me Posted
I recently got a message about the new Web comedy Keep Me Posted: Keep Me Posted Teaser from Hillary Nussbaum on Vimeo. As the Seed And Spark fundraiser
A thought on Jonah Lehrer’s new book, redemption, and writing
So Jonah Lehrer has a new book coming out, and there’s some snark around it. Lehrer has admitted that he cut corners, self-plagiarized, and made stuff up, but lots
Tim Wu on the “sofalarity”
I missed this in when it first came out in 2014: In his book “What Technology Wants,” Kelly writes: “Technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency; Increasing opportunity;
Nom nom Om: The rise of bite-sized wisdom
"We each have two lives,” a wise person once said, “and the second begins when we realise we have only one.” I can’t tell you which wise person,