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“This interest should be so absorbing that when he is thus engaged, business is banished from mind”

Walter Dill Scott, in his 1914 book Increasing Human Efficiency in Business (available on the Internet Archive), advises workers on the need for hobbies: Upon entering business every young man should

By |2017-01-05T14:24:56-08:00January 5th, 2017|Advice, Business and work, History|Comments Off on “This interest should be so absorbing that when he is thus engaged, business is banished from mind”

Stimulants, soldiers, and the Vietnam War

I recently wrote about the new book Blitzed, which look at drugs by the Nazis and how the ideology of National Socialism-- and the increasingly desperate needs of the

By |2016-09-28T13:02:37-07:00September 28th, 2016|History|Comments Off on Stimulants, soldiers, and the Vietnam War

John Littlewood’s advice to mathematicians: 4-hour days, acquire the art of “thinking vaguely,” and “work all out or rest completely”

Cambridge from the bell tower at St Mary's Church I've quoted from this before, but I love John Littlewood's essay “The mathematician’s art of work,” In this extract, the

By |2020-11-24T09:26:00-08:00September 18th, 2016|Advice, Creativity, History, Routines, Science, Walking|Comments Off on John Littlewood’s advice to mathematicians: 4-hour days, acquire the art of “thinking vaguely,” and “work all out or rest completely”
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