One of the things that plenty of CEOs in Silicon Valley pride themselves on is cutting out extraneous decisions, so they have bandwidth left to focus on the
Recently I ran across two mentions of train travel as conducive to mind-wandering: Writing in the Atlantic in 1862, Oliver Wendell Holmes describes being “magnetized into an hour or
You might not think of chess players as athletes, as Christopher Berglund wrote in Psychology Today in 2013, while chess of course is a deeply cerebral sport, it's
An interesting aside in Santiago Ramón y Cajal's Advice for a Young Investigator on neuroplasticity, creativity, and identity: When one reflects on the ability that humans display for modifying and refining
Raymond Chandler in a 1949 letter to Alex Barris on the discipline of writing: What do I do with myself from day to day? I write when I
A new survey by Kampgrounds of America reveals that 83% of campers bring their cellphones, half of all campers go online daily (and another 20% go online at
As part of the research for Rest, I’ve been interviewing digital nomads, people who combine work and travel, running their businesses or doing freelance work in coworking spaces
Wilder Penfield, from his 1962 address "The Use of Idleness," republished in The Second Career: The best rest for doing one thing is doing another until you fall
Chess is often regarded by smart people as a great way to unwind, while still mentally challenging themselves. Yet this is not a view universally held. The great
Very interesting to see this: It’s a series at The Story Houston, a new church in Houston. a sermon by Eric Huffman on “Distraction Addiction, Jesus, and You.” Here’s