Oliver Burkeman writes in The Guardian about a new study on the benefits of "collective restoration," the benefits of group breaks and simultaneous vacations: A team led by
The Art of Manliness has a guide to taking a tech sabbath on Gawker. The highlights: Kick things off with a whole "Input Deprivation Week.” Choose the timeframe
One the most common reasons people give for not taking time off from work— forgoing vacation days, taking home work on the weekend, checking voice mail or email
Cody Delistraty writes in The Atlantic about why overwork is bad, but we do it anyway: even though the amount of time you work tends to match how
Earth Island Journal editor Jason Mark has a piece in The Atlantic about proposals to make wifi available in national parks and other remote areas, and whether a
Buddhify recently conducted a survey of its users to find out why they started meditating. Here are the results: Notice anything interesting? Nearly 60% said that they were
From Phyllis Rose’s 2013 American Scholar essay, "Examined Lives:" Writers’ lives seem interesting after the fact because writers have irradiated and transformed their own experience. But there is
The Paris Review has a fantastic series of interviews with authors and poets. This one with Ray Bradbury is great: I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in
When we're faced with a problem, either we solve it or it solves us." (Stephen King, from an interview with Wallace Stroby)
Michael Harris’ The End of Absence: Reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection come out this week, and to mark its publication, Penguin is doing something