A note about the blog
This site is built atop a blog I started in 2002. Those 5000+ posts have moved through Blogger, Movable Type, Typepad, and a couple different iterations of WordPress.
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
My appearance on Pepicast
You can listen to me talk about distraction, deliberate rest, and 4-day weeks in a conversation with Montreal-based podcaster Gael Gendre on episode 43 of Gael's podcast, Pepicast. It's one
“The idea here is not that we should start to off random senior scientists to make room for the new blood”. (Or is it?)
Stata Center, MIT Inside Higher Ed reports on a new study by MIT professor Pierre Azoulay on the impact of the deaths of star scientists on their fields.
A dissent on the 4-day workweek
Ohio State University professor Allard Dembe has a piece about the potential downsides of a 4-day workweek: I have been studying the health effects of long working hours
“there is much to be said for Mr Pang’s conclusion that the belief in the power of the 80-hour week is piffle.”
Financial Times editor and columnist Pilita Clark has a piece that puts REST against the workaholic pose of the current government: Brexit, one of the most important events
How conforming to ideology gets money-laundered into expressing personal preference
A friend recently asked me how much things like our embrace of overwork and the M-curve in women's employment (the phenomenon of women dropping out of the workforce
“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
“Medicine has become something of a stealth family-friendly profession”
Claire Cain Miller, who writes some great stuff about work and family for the New York Times, has a piece about mothers and medical practice: Medicine has become
as Pang “notes, we’re unlikely to be doing quite as essential a job as Eisenhower’s. If he benefited from some down time, so might we.”
Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist, had a nice column in the Financial Times that talks about Rest: Three reasons to take a holiday — especially a