「休みは仕事の戦略だ」: Talking about rest in Asahi Globe
The Asahi Globe, the Asahi Shinbun’s weekend magazine, has a special section on rest that features a profile of me, or at least a picture of me sleeping
Listening to “A 4-Day Week: The Time is Now!” Session at The World Transformed
In September, there was an interesting session on the four-day week at The World Transformed, an event in Liverpool that sounds like a fringe festival paralleling the UK
“We converted 20% less work into 50% more weekend:” Australian company Icelab’s four-day workweek
There’s a classic (classic among grad students, anyway) Matt Groening cartoon about graduate school: At the risk of being the person who reads another book in order to
Is the biggest company experimenting with 30-hour weeks in… Japan?
I’m still very much trying to track this down, but a friend pointed me to an article in Bloomberg about Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese billionaire who founded online clothing
Dogs with jobs
When I was on my travels, I met several dogs who were helping people I interviewed. There was this dog doing graphic design: Then there was this very
Adam Smith disliked overwork
https://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/5500538580/in/photolist-9o4Gu5 Adam Smith's tomb, Edinburgh The report from The Mix about its four-day week had a quote from Adam Smith that "the man who works so moderately as
The Mix’s report on four-day weeks
https://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/43507534760/in/datetaken/ One of the places I visited in London during my recent recent trip was The Mix, a research consultancy founded in 2012. Almost exactly a year ago,
The Labour Party talks about four-day weeks
https://flic.kr/p/2c1h4zT The City, from the 6th floor of Shoreditch House While I was in England, interviewing companies about how they implement and manage their four-day weeks, the UK's
Thought of the day
Not a bad sentiment (spotted on a bicycle in Copenhagen): I'm in the middle of processing the interviews from my trip, and more generally trying to organize all
The slow but essential work of transcribing interviews
https://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/44401365734/in/album-72157701613811494/ Interviewing Stuart Ralston, owner and head chef at Aizle, Edinburgh The last several days I've been working through the hours of interviews I conducted on the road,