Why isn’t the four-day week a utopia?
Shoreditch, 2018 Wired UK has a piece by Hazel Sheffield explaining "Why four-day working weeks may not be the utopia they seem." To my practiced eye, one thing
“we’re unlikely to be doing quite as essential a job as Eisenhower’s. If he benefited from some down time, so might we”
A few weeks ago the undercover economist Tim Harford had a piece in the Financial Times about my book REST (US | UK) and vacations. It's now up
Now U.S. labor unions are talking about a 4-day week
Unions in the UK have been talking about the 4-day week for some time, and now American unions are starting to take notice, Alexia Fernández Campbell reports in
“Pang’s argument… is that deep, targeted rest, and more of it, improves the quality of our thinking, our work and our lives“
I flew into O’Hare International Airport this afternoon, and when I switched on my phone, I found that Jenni Russell had published a new column in the Times
REST is one of “5 Business Books That Don’t Actually Suck”
Michael Schein's recent piece in Forbes lists "5 Business Books That Don’t Actually Suck," and REST is one of them. The emotion I’m most comfortable with is guilt
In Dulles
Despite my flight from SFO being delayed, I made it to Dulles with time to spare, and am recharging a little. Given how much time I spend on
Sitting in SFO
I’m sitting in SFO, waiting for a red eye to Dulles. I’m headed to Virginia for a couple days, to spend some time with my mother, and to
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
The MIT Media Lab: a “glue trap for morally elastic rich people”
The Media Lab has long been academia’s fanciest glue trap for morally elastic rich people. It is a laundromat for capital from some of the world’s least socially
长时间工作可能毫无意义
Pilita Clark's recent Financial Times piece that talks about REST is now available in Chinese. Always good to see the argument for rest popping up in other parts