“My Mother’s Lover”
A terrific story, well worth your time on a Sunday morning: The February after my mother died, my brother, Allen, left his New Mexico home and boarded a
“the man or woman who has not learned to pursue helpful recreation is deficient in education”
While success ostensibly is won during working hours, in reality it is most often won during non business hours, the hours that are spent away from the bench
Cities with the best and worst work-life balance
Expert Market conducted a study comparing working hours and vacation time taken in different global cities. As Business Insider explains, Using data from Swiss banking group UBS, the
Nom nom Om: The rise of bite-sized wisdom
"We each have two lives,” a wise person once said, “and the second begins when we realise we have only one.” I can’t tell you which wise person,
“Real recreation quickens aspiration”
Whatever dissipates physical or mental power obviously never re-creates. Many eminent men have found almost all the recreation they required through switching from one activity to another, through
REST book cover
Here's the cover for the American version of REST. One of the things I really like about this cover design is that this is a kind of chair
Concentration is contagious
You may find you work better in a coffee shop than in your bedroom, but perhaps not for the reasons you’ve been led to believe. Instead of the
“The content we devour on the internet really can have a lasting effect on our cognitive abilities”
Drugs aren’t the only thing that can addle our brains. New research confirms what your brain may feel following a long, uncontrolled binge through the depths of your
“It is no use saying to the tired ‘mental muscles’… ‘I will lie down and think of nothing'”
One of the best things my wife and I did in London last year was visit the Churchill War Rooms. I had just come from LSE, where I
Workaholics are more likely to have ADHD
Sampling 16,426 Norwegian workers who responded to ads in online newspapers, a team lead by University of Bergen researcher Cecilie Schou Andreassen found that workaholics — or 7.8