Sometimes you write something and forget about it for years, only to rediscover it and think, Hey, this isn't bad. (More common is rediscovering something and think, Boy, this is terrible.
Later this year Oxford University Press is publishing The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought, edited by Kieran Fox and Kalina Christoff. I have a chapter on the history of
One of the most consistent findings in REST is how many really prolific and creative people do their most important work in about four focused hours a day.
As thepPublication of the German edition of REST nears, the Austrian magazine Woman interviews me about work, stress, and rest: Stress, Überarbeitung und wenig Schlaf gelten heute als
Health Blogger Magazine has a short piece by me asking (and answering) the question, "Can Working Less Make You More Productive?:" In our busy lives we don’t think
The Greater Good Science Center reports on a new study that seems to clarify the relationship between creativity and flourishing, that emotional state characterized by an "overall sense of
The German edition of my book, Pause: Tue weniger, erreiche mehr comes out in one week, on April 17. strategylways exciting to see your book in another language, thought
One of the nice things that comes from publishing a book like REST is that it connects you with some pretty interesting readers. In the old days, this
When I was an undergraduate at Penn, one of the graduate students I met was an historian of American technology named Deborah Fitzgerald. Later, when I taught American
Time to update this poster. A new study by the Governors Highway Safety Association finds that in the first half of 2016, pedestrian fatalities reached a two-decade high.