Seneca on busyness as idleness
If you ask people how they're doing, you'll often get some variation of "I'm so busy!" Many people make the mistake of confusing busyness with productivity; in fact, they're
“Busy men find life very short:” Seneca on busyness, leisure and time
Yesterday I read Seneca's essay "On The Shortness of Life." I read his Letters from a Stoic when I was on sabbatical in Cambridge, and recently saw a reference
TED on restorative vacations
The TED Ideas blog has an excerpt from Rest about restorative vacations. Just in time for the Christmas holiday season!
In which I win this week’s “Least sexy Cosmopolitan article title” contest
One of the cool things about REST is that I can talk about it everywhere. Not only have I given talks about it in Japan, Silicon Valley, New
“Science demands a lot of its disciples, so scientists should take control, not be controlled”
This piece about scientists' working hours was written from last year, but it recently came to my attention after Jennifer Polk tweeted it out. (Of course I'm not
The culture of overwork is not a new problem: American writers were describing rest as a “Forgotten Art” in 1876
Every now and then I come across some old essay that’s worth preserving and sharing. Recently I came across this 1876 piece by a Scottish-born American physician, Alexander
Interview in HR Magazine
Earlier this month I was interviewed in HR Magazine, published by the Society for Human Resource Management. In addition to covering the basic ideas behind deliberate rest, we
“My busyness was actually laziness”
Just as work and rest are partners (as I argue in REST), so too are busyness and laziness actually linked in ways we don't always recognize. Writer Abigail Murrish
Guy Kawasaki: “You are going to work the rest of your lives, so don’t be in a rush to start”
Guy Kawasaki recently spoke at the Project Time Off's Upside of Downtime Forum about the importance of taking time off, and the need for leaders to practice what
Another book advocating doing less: Tiffany Dufu’s Drop the Ball
Well this looks interesting: Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu, a renowned voice in the women’s leadership movement,