One of the best things about working on big interesting projects like books, or editing the Encyclopedia Britannica, is that you encounter people you never would otherwise. Kavi
Two new books, The Organized Mind by psychologist Daniel Levitin, and Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head, talk about the importance of learning how to intelligently offload memory
As part of the research for Rest, I’ve been interviewing digital nomads, people who combine work and travel, running their businesses or doing freelance work in coworking spaces
Another new article of mine, this time in the Penn Gazette, which happens to be my alumni magazine. I really like the 1970s cybernetic thing going on in
One of the first countries to buy rights to Rest: How Working Less Gets More Done was Japan, and with good reason: Japan is notorious for a workforce
Fast Company has a piece about the Scandinavian Hoffice movement, which “aims to help freelancers find it easier to get things done, by transforming apartments and homes into
Pew Research does some of the most interesting work in the U.S. on the impact of information technology on daily, family, and working life. A good example of
Pew Research does some of the most interesting work in the U.S. on the impact of information technology on daily, family, and working life. A good example of
Business Insider has a piece explaining "Why programmers work at night." Swizec Teller, a freelance programmer who lives near me (note to self: interview him for the Rest book). So
One of the questions I often get when I talk about technology and distraction is about music and focus. (This almost always comes up when I speak at