Talking about deliberate rest on Bodyshot Performance
My latest interview, with Bodyshot Performance founder Leanne Spencer, is now up online. (I recently wrote about Leanne's TED talk on fitness versus weight.) It seems to have
Sleep, brain maintenance, and Alzheimer’s disease
In Rest, I talk about how sleep turns out to be a form of what I call "active rest:" rest in which the body is actually doing things
Even the expectation of work email creates anxiety
This finding should come as no surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention to the literature on email, detachment, and work-life balance, but a new study finds that
New things on vacations
I've been thinking a bit about vacations, partly because I'm off to England tomorrow for some research, some interviews, and a little time off with my wife. My
Rest, medical education, and Clifford Geertz’s lawn
The Center for Medical Simulation at Harvard discusses REST in the latest episode of their podcast. It’s a great conversation: in addition to providing a good overview of
We do our “most important work when” we let the mind “wander at its own pace round the paths over which it has been rushing”
I recently discovered an essay by the surgeon William Heneage Ogilvie titled “In Praise of Idleness,” which I found while looking for stuff on Bertrand Russell’s essay of
Rest with Alex Pang, Episode 2: Annie Tevelin and SkinOwl’s 24-Hour Week
This week on my podcast I talk to Annie Tevelin, founder and head of SkinOwl, a Los Angeles-based cosmetics company that works a 24-hour week. SkinOwl makes vegan cosmetics
“We can hack our technologies, and even our societies, so why not ourselves?”
Samuel Arbesman writes in The Atlantic about " The Hubris of Biohacking: this hacking ethos relies on the idea that if people can just collect more data to
Happiness and LSE podcasts
I'm a fan of podcasts. When I take the dogs out walking in the evening, I'll often listen to a podcast, since the dogs generally have little to
On rest and value of boredom
Over the weekend I had a short piece in Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper, which was dedicated to "the benefits of boredom." My piece explains why "Rest and Boredom