My talk at Google
Recently I was at Google, at the invitation of the Asian Googlers Network, to talk about Rest, my new work on the 4-day week, and even a bit
Clockwise and the challenge of taming meetings in favor of focused time
For my next book, Shorter: How The 4-Day Week Can Save the World (not the exact title necessarily), I talked a lot to companies about how they fit
Is this the solution to overwork? [Narrator: It was not the solution.]
A while ago I saw this in article asking "How Can We Curb ‘Death by Overwork’?": North is referring to “T-FREND,” a first-of-its-kind drone currently in development by
“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
Turns out the German word for management consultant is “Managementberater”
I learned this courtesy of a new article, "Pausen auf der Arbeit: Wie Abschalten die Produktivität erhöht" that talks about Rest and other books. I think "management berater" is
The Wellcome Trust thinks about four-day weeks
The Guardian, which really owns the beat on the shorter workweeks trend, reports that the Wellcome Trust "is considering moving all of its 800 head office staff to
“I have learned not to feel guilty whenever I close the laptop”
Stem cell researcher Dr Cristina Lo Celso talks the Academy of Medical Sciences about her work, and rest. This bit in particular jumped out at me: I have
“the first step to the investigation of the creative mind is the historical approach”
From the opening page of Rosamund E. M. Harding's The Anatomy of Inspiration: We venture to suggest, therefore, that the first step to the investigation of the creative
Frans Johanssen on the Starbucks epiphany
Frans Johansson, author of The Click Moment and The Medici Effect, on business travel and Howard Schultz's discovery of coffee culture: I'm planning a couple trips myself, and
「休みは仕事の戦略だ」: Talking about rest in Asahi Globe
The Asahi Globe, the Asahi Shinbun’s weekend magazine, has a special section on rest that features a profile of me, or at least a picture of me sleeping