Another book advocating doing less: Tiffany Dufu’s Drop the Ball
Well this looks interesting: Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu, a renowned voice in the women’s leadership movement,
On rap, aerials, and the value of “creative side gigs”
Another Fast Company link, to an article explaining "Why These Two Working Moms Won't Compromise On Pursuing Their Creative Side Gigs." It focuses on Lindsay White, founder of
Avoiding busyness while being productive: How people manage it
When I was writing REST, one of the surprising things that emerged from my research was that people who have a lot of leisure are really well-organized and spend some of
“We would all become wealthy entrepreneurs like Richard Branson. What a cruel joke that turned out to be.”
The great Peter Fleming has a piece in The Guardian on "The way to a better work-life balance? Unions, not self-help:" Overwork has become an epidemic in the
Greenacre Park, New York City
I was just in New York City and discovered Greenacre Park, a tennis-sized park on 51st Street between a synagogue and apartment building. Greenacre Park was opened in 1971,
“Work less, sleep better” at the School of Life, Amsterdam
So this is what I'm doing on November 23: appearing at The School of Life in Amsterdam, in an event titled "Work less - Sleep better." The Dutch
To fight climate change, institute a four-day workweek
Just in time for Columbus Day, Alex Williams, coauthor of Inventing the Future, has a piece in Quartz explaining how we could fight climate change by shifting to
Keep on exercising– your brain will thank you
There's been a lot of good science that establishes the cognitive benefits of exercise. In the New York Times, Gretchen Reynolds reports on a new study that finds
Stimulants, soldiers, and the Vietnam War
I recently wrote about the new book Blitzed, which look at drugs by the Nazis and how the ideology of National Socialism-- and the increasingly desperate needs of the
“You will eat vegetable soup again today and like it; Mommy’s beginning chapter three:” Shirley Jackson and creative lives
The author and critic Ruth Franklin has a terrific article about Shirley Jackson in New York Magazine (it's a selection from her new book, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life,