In her essay on the meaning of leisure, Washington Post editor Christine Emba notes that Uber recently announced that it would debut self-driving cars in Pittsburgh later this fall. This, she argues, marks another step
Washington Post editor Christine Emba has a good essay on our need to rethink the meaning and use of leisure. Americans "have lost our understanding of what leisure
One of the strategies that companies and countries use to try to reduce "work-to-family interference" (a term sociologists use for a concept that's fairly close to work-life balance)
I talk briefly about it in REST, but I'm planning a piece that's a deep dive into thinking about working hours in the tech industry, and how some
A depressing piece on workplace suicide in The New Republic: Workplace suicides are sharply on the rise internationally, with increasing numbers of employees choosing to take their own
Bertrand Russell's "In Praise of Idleness" will never become obsolete (though it would be great if we could put more of its lessons into practice): In a world
Padraig O'Morain, asking "Why do we need to be always busy?" in the Irish Times: Our lives have become like a maths problem in one of those old
This study came out a couple months ago, when I working on the revisions to Rest, so I didn't write about it then, but it's still quite timely: it's
From Bertie Forbes, “Recreation,” in Keys to Success: Personal Efficiency (New York: B. C. Forbes, 1918) 222-230. If you want to accomplish the largest amount of work of which you
While success ostensibly is won during working hours, in reality it is most often won during non business hours, the hours that are spent away from the bench