Mindfulness improves brain computer interface control
This is very interesting: a team at the University of Minnesota led by Bin He, a professor of biomedical engineering, has conducted a study measuring the ability of
Thomas Jefferson on exercise: “You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk”
Thomas Jefferson, writing about exercise in 1785: Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise
Naps, productivity, and the perils of privatizing rest
"Nap rooms gone bad" sounds like the worst idea for a Disney channel show ever (not to mention an awful porn movie), but it's a BBC article about
Watch this during your next break
One of the things that creative people often do is take short, regular breaks, during which they occupy their minds with things that easily hold their attention. (This
“Part one: Neglect everything else” is good advice for a good life
In the course of researching the lives of really productive, creative people, I've found that one they invariably do is strip their lives down to a couple essential
Stephen King on writing as “creative sleep”
One of the arguments I'm building in the rest project is that for creative people, work and rest are not opposites, but partners. We think of rest as
Ray Bradbury on the muse, and ten years of practice
Of all the writers I know, Ray Bradbury is probably the most eloquent proponent of the idea that inspiration is unbiddable and uncontrollable, that his stories came from
“what the most productive 10% of our users have in common is their ability to take effective breaks”
A study recently conducted by the Draugiem Group, a Latvian IT company, provides another data-point about the important of rest in a good day’s work. Julia Gifford, a writer and
Founders, startups and depression
From The Atlantic, something that sounds like a serious First World Problem, except it’s a human problem: depression among startup founders. In tech circles, depression is “more prevalent
“I took the iPhone into my life without ever really thinking about what it was gonna take from me”
Last year, Google Ventures design partner Jake Knapp published an essay about his “distraction-free iPhone,” which got a fair amount of attention. It started when he realized that