This is not a crazy idea
Chris Bailey has a piece in the New York Times about focus, distraction, and quality of work: When it comes to focusing at work, there is no shortage
Giving away some books
My UK publishers sent me a box of copies of the new paperback edition of REST (the one with the foreword by Arianna Huffington). One thing I’ve learned
One New Mexico school districts’ 4-day week
One of my old elementary schools, now closed and scheduled for demolition, Waynesboro, VirginiaPBS' News Hour recently had a piece about Bayard, New Mexico, a school district that
Self-help ≠ you’re on your own: New work on career advice vs. advocacy
When writing The Distraction Addiction and Rest, I could never shake a certain uneasiness with both projects: my concern that the self-help genre lets corporations and culture off
Lasse Rheingans and the 5-Hour Workday at Rheingans Digital Enabler
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4zdsx-987466 And we're back! I'm afraid I was off for a couple weeks in England, doing some research and other interviews, then had lots of other things that
Talking about deliberate rest on Bodyshot Performance
My latest interview, with Bodyshot Performance founder Leanne Spencer, is now up online. (I recently wrote about Leanne's TED talk on fitness versus weight.) It seems to have
Sleep, brain maintenance, and Alzheimer’s disease
In Rest, I talk about how sleep turns out to be a form of what I call "active rest:" rest in which the body is actually doing things
Why college students need to get regular sleep
I was one of those college students who treated sleep with a kind of casual contempt. The combination of being an adolescent, being free from the strictures of
Working late “just makes people think you’re inefficient”
Ruby Anderson explains how “Dutch Culture Taught Me to Be Brutally Honest,” and relates this anecdote from a friend about attitudes to working hours: “I had a Dutch
Even the expectation of work email creates anxiety
This finding should come as no surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention to the literature on email, detachment, and work-life balance, but a new study finds that