One of the strategies that companies and countries use to try to reduce "work-to-family interference" (a term sociologists use for a concept that's fairly close to work-life balance)
I talk briefly about it in REST, but I'm planning a piece that's a deep dive into thinking about working hours in the tech industry, and how some
This is the cover of REST. I wasn’t involved in the design: authors usually aren’t, unless they have design backgrounds, otherwise they’re a lot more likely to mess
This weekend I finished reviewing the index and page proofs of my next book, REST. It now goes off to the printer, and the next time I see
Today I emailed my copyeditor the index of REST. The main body of the book is now completely done, and it can go off to the presses. The
Capital has managed to overcome the dualism of body and soul by establishing a workforce in which everything we mean by the Soul—language, creativity, affects—is mobilized for its
A depressing piece on workplace suicide in The New Republic: Workplace suicides are sharply on the rise internationally, with increasing numbers of employees choosing to take their own
“If a vacation is done well, it gives your ego all this extra time to refuel, by not trying to manage your brain, not trying to be on
A new study finds that people who read books live longer than those who do not. Researchers looked at "3635 people who were 50 or older," and found
If you're in London, there's a cool-looking exhibition on rest opening at the end of September at the Mile End Art Pavilion: Rest & its discontents is a major