Was digital distraction responsible for the Oscar gaffe?
Sounds like it could have been, according to Variety: Brian Cullinan, one of the two PriceWaterhouseCoopers partners who handled the Oscar envelopes on Sunday night, was tweeting photos
On Inside Mastery
I'm a guest on this week's Inside Mastery podcast, talking with host Martin Soorjoo about REST, performance, and productivity. You can listen on Soundcloud, or iTunes. This picture
REST in Red Bulletin magazine; or, beaten by Metallica in four languages
Red Bulletin, the magazine published by energy drink company Red Bull, has an interview with me about Rest. The magazine is better-known for running pieces about extreme sports,
Writing for Thrive Global
I've been writing every now and then for Thrive Global, and have a new piece arguing "Work-Life Balance is About Years, Not Hours." It mainly talks about Inga Clendinnen,
Embodied cognition and Rest
Recently I talked with Dutch company Made4Motion founder Sanne Clifford about rest, how we think about busyness, and the role that physical movement plays in stimulating creativity. The
Work-life balance is about years, not days
[This is a repost of a piece I first published on Thrive Global.] When I was working on my book Rest: Why You Get More Done When You
The flat, non-distracting doorways of the new Apple spaceship
Having written so much in REST and on this blog about the creative power of walks, I was struck by this detail in Julia Love’s Reuters article about
“The writing stuff just has much faster reinforcement rates, and so it’s real addictive”
In REST I talk about how the most restorative forms of rest are active and skilled rather than passive or easy. This seems counterintuitive, but in fact people
“We’re still stuck in this perception of sleep as a luxury”
The BBC has a piece about "How to nap successfully at work." For a short piece, it ranges pretty widely, talking about the various national approaches to napping
Because we “treat overwork as a badge of honour… we have forgotten the importance of rest”
When I was in London in November, I had a number of interviews with reporters who had agreed to do magazine pieces about REST. The Evening Standard article