Anne-Marie Slaughter has an essay in the New York Times about today's "Toxic Work World." Following on yesterday's post on Swedish experiments in a six-hour day, it's a depressing
The Guardian reports on experiments in Sweden to shorten the workday, in an effort to get higher-quality work and reduce turnover. In the Svartedalens care home, a Gothenburg nursing home, for
That was Samuel Johnson writing in The Idler two centuries ago (and quoted in a more recent essay by Steven Poole). Some things seem constant. There is no
So said Linus Pauling in a 1961 talk on “The Genesis of Ideas,” which I just discovered via Robert Scott Root-Bernstein. “As the world becomes more and more
Marketing firm Havas has released a survey, “The Modern Nomad: Catch Me If You Can,” which looks at prosumers and their perception and management of time. A couple
Just in time for the end of Labor Day are several articles about vacations, why we don’t take them (or admit to taking them), and what happens when
At Quartz, Akshat Rathi challenges the claim that modern times has caused a sleep epidemic. According to a survey conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Susan Fitzpatrick, the president of the McDonnell Foundation, has an opinion piece in The Scientist about the importance of unstructured, social time in doing good science. There was
I'm reading Salvador Dali's Fifty Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, his 1948 book about creativity. A lot of it is as crazy as you would expect. Beethoven with his
Brigid Schulte recently had a piece about Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine's "groundbreaking new “time banking” program aimed to ease work-life conflicts for the emergency medicine faculty." It's
