Walking meetings and Zoom fatigue
Today I was doing a short podcast interview, and the subject of walking meetings came up. I have a whole chapter in REST about the creative benefits of
Rest, medical education, and Clifford Geertz’s lawn
The Center for Medical Simulation at Harvard discusses REST in the latest episode of their podcast. It’s a great conversation: in addition to providing a good overview of
The power of walks, chapter one million: Theresa May’s snap election
According to The Guardian's article, "Theresa May calls for UK general election on 8 June:" The prime minister later repeated her suggestion that she was taking the decision
Smartphone distraction and pedestrian deaths
Time to update this poster. A new study by the Governors Highway Safety Association finds that in the first half of 2016, pedestrian fatalities reached a two-decade high.
Happy Hamilton Day, and walking insights
Mathematical Bridge, Cambridge It may not be on your calendar, but Sunday October 16 is Hamilton Day, the anniversary of the day Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton carved his most
John Littlewood’s advice to mathematicians: 4-hour days, acquire the art of “thinking vaguely,” and “work all out or rest completely”
Cambridge from the bell tower at St Mary's Church I've quoted from this before, but I love John Littlewood's essay “The mathematician’s art of work,” In this extract, the
Walks and world events
Given the many benefits of walks in nature, the suggestion by Jason Mark, the editor of Sierra Magazine, that “The Paris climate negotiators should go take a hike”
Nature and creative problem solving: how days in the wood boost creativity
This morning via Michael Hyatt, I came across a 2012 study on "Creativity in the Wild: Improving Creative Reasoning through Immersion in Natural Settings:" Adults and children are
Alain Connes: “when fighting with a very complicated problem… go for a long walk”
Advice from Alain Connes (from the Princeton Companion to Mathematics) on being creative: Walks. One very sane exercise, when fighting with a very complicated problem (often involving computations),
Erno Rubik, Graham Wallas, and the invention of the Rubik’s Cube
Just over forty years ago, Erno Rubik invented what is now one of the most famous puzzles ever: the Rubik’s Cube. Recently I saw an interview with Rubik