The cost of March Madness distraction: $13.3 billion
This isn't the sort of business-related distraction that I usually pay attention to, but the Guardian has a piece about how March Madness will cost businesses more than
Is this the solution to overwork? [Narrator: It was not the solution.]
A while ago I saw this in article asking "How Can We Curb ‘Death by Overwork’?": North is referring to “T-FREND,” a first-of-its-kind drone currently in development by
“the key to his fantastic work… was that he was phenomenally boring”
Sophie Beck's essay on Joan Miró gets at something important: I came to believe that the key to his fantastic work, to the sheer volume of work—he kept
Long hours, weekends and mental health
This 2018 episode of the Life’s Work podcast has an interesting brief conversation about the impact of working long hours and weekends on mental health? UCL researcher and
The restaurants just keep coming: Los Angeles’ n/naka
One more example of a great restaurant that operates on a four-day week: Los Angeles' n/naka, profiled by Helen Rosner in this week's issue of The New Yorker:
It’s not just Michelin-starred restaurants that are doing 4-day weeks
Some of the world's best restaurants-- Noma and Relae in Copenhagen, Maison Baumé in California, Attica in Melbourne, Aizle in Edinburgh-- are shortening working hours for their chefs
Young sociology faculty publish twice as much today as in the 1990s
I’m taking a glance at academic work and careers in the book, and came across this really interesting article by John Robert Warren asking, “How Much Do You
Tash Walker on the Boundless podcast
Last fall I spent some time at The Mix, a London research agency, and interviewed several people about the four-day week. The Mix moved to a four-day week
It’s not just about efficiency: MADE Agency’s 6-hour day
One of the things about companies working shorter hours is that while they pay a lot of attention to tightening up their processes, making meetings more efficient, keeping
The magic trick of workism
Derek Thompson writes in The Atlantic about how workism, "the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production, but also the centerpiece of one’s identity and