Hello from Bentonville Arkansas, most interesting place in the world
This year I’ve given talks in Tokyo, Osaka, Baku, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, London, Montreal, Palm Springs, and other places. But I think the coolest place I’ve been to all year
Digital distraction is for the birds
The Times reports on a "raise‑a‑chick plan to get pupils off phones:" It is a question that parents the world over struggle with: how to prise children away
I talk about books at Blake Street
So I was just in BlakeSt., a truly extraordinary venue in Bentonville, Arkansas, talking about REST and SHORTER. I recorded a little 1-minute video about books in their
Some personal news: I’m joining the BrightSight Group
I’m on my last business flight of 2019, heading to Bentonville Arkansas to talk at BlakeSt. about work, rest, and the 4-day week. It’s been a busy year:
New report on women’s working hours finds that women are working more hours (you won’t believe what happens next)
Brigid Schulte points out A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research about “Gender Inequality, Work Hours, and the Future of Work:” Technological innovation through machine
Speaking at Life Lessons in London, February 2020
I'm going back to London in February to speak at Life Lessons, a conference at the Barbican! Wellbeing isn't about lycra and fad diets. Its aim is not
Are articles about the 4-day week the new “this CEO gets up at 4 am for meditation and archery”?
Cockroach Labs, where they have a 4-day week Business Insider has another article about the 4-day workweek that casts shorter working hours (not incorrectly) as efforts to give
Queens, peace and war
The Times (not the New York one, the other one) reports on a study about queens and conquest: In 1588 Queen Elizabeth I promised that if the Spanish
Cal Newport on shorter working hours and the future of knowledge work
Knowledge workers of the world, unplug! Cal Newport has a piece in the New York Times about Lasse Rheingans, shorter working hours, and the future of work. Newport
Paddy Bettington on the political radicalism of shorter working hours
In the companies I've been studying that have moved to 4-day weeks, unions have played little or no role in setting working hour or working conditions. But unions