Alice Flaherty on creativity and danger
Neurologist Alice Flaherty, author of the book Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Disease, has an interesting TEDx talk on creativity and danger:
An Academic’s Introduction to Trade Press Writing: How and Why
I'm doing a free workshop on October 22 about trade press writing for academics. All are invited! This builds on some of my earlier writing about writing for
Reflections on AI systems, tools, and the 4-day week
One of the things I've seen while working on and studying the 4-day week movement is that different topics get hot for a while. This season, it's been
“When I quit being late, I started showing up for myself”
New York author Helene Rosenthal talks about the psychological benefits of being on time in a Guardian piece. She was someone who was perpetually late, but appearing early
Parenting AI
I've often said that in their factory settings, smartphones behave like children: they want your attention all the time, they don't share your mental map of what's important
United Auto Workers strike for a 4-day week
The United Auto Workers has gone on strike against all three of the big automakers, and one of their demands is a 4-day week. Regardless of whether it
A 4-day week chatbot
I've been experimenting a lot with ChatGPT recently, and among other things have been playing around with ways of making use of my vast array of research notes,
“Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition” and the 4-day week
In the January 2023 Harvard Business Review, Amy Edmonson and Mark Mortensen make the case for thinking more holistically and long-term about compensation and retaining talent. It’s a
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
Benjamin Franklin on the 4-hour day
From Benjamin Franklin, "On Luxury, Idleness, and Industry," in The Life of Benjamin Franklin (Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1852), p. 292: “It has been computed by some political