The Right to be Lazy
There's a new edition of the late 19th-century classic The Right to Be Lazy, by socialist Paul Lafargue, and critic Lily Meyer writes about it in The Atlantic. Lafargue
My review of “The Innovation Delusion“
Last year, my work took me to Korea, Azerbaijan (i.e., from one end of the Silk Road to the other) and the Netherlands, among other places. Baku, the
So this has been a strange book debut week!
So SHORTER came out a week ago, and it hasn't exactly been the greatest week for new books! My reading at Books Inc in Mountain View went forward
“we have to detach money from time”
You're probably familiar with books like David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and Peter Fleming's The Death of Homo Economicus, which talk about how in the modern economy, the problems
New York Times article on sabbaticals
This sign sums up my sabbatical I’m quoted in an article about “Do-It-Yourself Sabbaticals” in today’s New York Times. It’s a good piece, if I do say so
The man who broke the calendar: About IIH Nordic and its 4-day week
One of the companies I write about in SHORTER (US | UK) is IIH Nordic, a Copenhagen-based data marketing firm that implemented, and has become a Nordic model for, a
Die 5-Stunden-Revolution
While SHORTER (US | UK) moves through production (I get the copyedits next week, and have a bunch of revisions to put in), there's another book about shortening
“Many modern workplaces, with their lures of perks and prestige, are increasingly resembling the Fyre festival”
Bruce Daisley, podcaster, Twitter executive, and author of The Joy of Work and the forthcoming Eat Sleep Work Repeat, has a short and great piece in The Guardian
“entitled men who… sneer at those who have to endure the consequences of their actions”
Fintan O'Toole's Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain sounds like a good read. And this bit about the British elite, from the New York Review of Books
“The potential in idleness for greater freedom seems worth the exploration”
University College Dublin philosophy professor Brian O'Connor has a nice piece in Time Magazine about "Why Doing Nothing is One of the Most Important Things You Can Do:"