Another virtue of naps: lower blood pressure
A new study finds that daytime napping has a positive effect on blood pressure and lowers the need for anti-high blood pressure meds. As the New Zealand Herald reports:
“Make the mistake of focusing too much on what matters most”
Y Combinator’s Sam Altman warns about the perils of “fake work” for startups that can apply to just about any serious creative endeavor. In general, startups get distracted
“Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading — that is a good life.”
From Annie Dillard's The Writing Life: How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one,
John Ashberry on routine
John Ashberry on the importance of routine for a writer, from Jill Krementz's lovely little book, The Writer's Desk: It's important to try to write when you are
“leisure should not be crammed between the vacant spaces of working life”
This morning I ran across “The Idle Manifesto,” written by a British organization called the Idle Foundation. [T]he Idle Foundation wants to encourage a world where people engage
Koreans drink coffee more often than they eat kimchi or rice
One thing I recently got interested in is coffee consumption around the world. In most of the world, growing coffee consumption can serve as a way of measuring
“your brain delves into itself when you are in an unfamiliar place”
On our last day in London, my wife and I wandered past, and of course in, a travel bookstore near Covent Garden called Stanfords. Actually not Stanfords, but
The floggings will continue until morale improves
One of the cleverer features on The Guardian right now is a series called “the autocomplete questions,” in which authors take on questions that are popular on Google.
Another “contemplation has been crowded out by modernity” data-point
Nietzsche, writing in 1882: “Soon we may well reach the point where people can no longer give in to the desire for a vita contemplativa (that is, taking
The 8-hour work day
I’ve been thinking some about how to work some of the argument and insights of Rest into infographics; fortunately it won’t be difficult, though since I’m not artist