“I spend four hours a day bragging to people like you about how busy I am, so you think I’m important”
You know the pushback against the cult of busyness is growing when there’s a Vooza video about it:
Announcing REST: WHY WORKING LESS GETS MORE DONE
Incredibly, Jonah Lehrer is only the second most unlikely person to have scored a book deal this past week. During my trip to the East Coast last week,
“We’re teaching our players: Sleep is a weapon”
The Globe and Mail has an article about how Canadian hockey and American football teams, like the San Francisco Giants, have turned to sleep experts to help their
Dan Ariely and fighting the “thieves of our time, thieves of our attention, thieves of our productivity”
Business Insider’s Eric Barker has a nice profile of Dan Ariely’s recent work on productivity and time management. For those of you who aren’t familiar with his books,
“I have a classroom full of riders and elephants, but I’m trying to teach the riders”
“I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement, so I’m a pretty unlikely candidate for
Germany considering guidelines to regulate off-hours email
Last year the German Ministry of Labor set new guidelines to reduce the amount of email sent after hours. As labor minister Ursula von der Leyen put it, "It's in the
“employees who lay in bed in the evening with laptops and phones answering emails had a much less restful night”
Yet another study on the negative consequences of sleeping with your cellphone, keeping your devices in bed with you, and staying up late answering email: Reading work-related emails
Naps, productivity, and the perils of privatizing rest
"Nap rooms gone bad" sounds like the worst idea for a Disney channel show ever (not to mention an awful porn movie), but it's a BBC article about
“what the most productive 10% of our users have in common is their ability to take effective breaks”
A study recently conducted by the Draugiem Group, a Latvian IT company, provides another data-point about the important of rest in a good day’s work. Julia Gifford, a writer and
Founders, startups and depression
From The Atlantic, something that sounds like a serious First World Problem, except it’s a human problem: depression among startup founders. In tech circles, depression is “more prevalent