https://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/5504032913/in/album-72157626196419985/ A few months ago, I came across an article about an Edinburgh restaurant that shifted to a four-day schedule. A couple days ago, I saw the article
This morning I saw this tweet by Brooklyn-based illustrator Adam Kurtz: (And yes, I took a screenshot of the tweet rather than figure out how to embed it.
The Atlantic has an article asking “Why Does the School Day End 2 Hours Before the Workday?” Across the country, parents are struggling to balance their busy work
One of my old elementary schools, now closed and scheduled for demolition, Waynesboro, VirginiaPBS' News Hour recently had a piece about Bayard, New Mexico, a school district that
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4zdsx-987466 And we're back! I'm afraid I was off for a couple weeks in England, doing some research and other interviews, then had lots of other things that
Ruby Anderson explains how “Dutch Culture Taught Me to Be Brutally Honest,” and relates this anecdote from a friend about attitudes to working hours: “I had a Dutch
Koreans have had some of the longest working hours in the developed world: longer than the workaholic United States, Europe, and even Japan (which is often Korea's benchmark
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wn9tz-952bd4 Since we're in the middle of summer break, I thought it would be fitting to take a break from the shorter hours interviews, and talk about something that's
In this episode I talk to Spencer Kimball, cofounder of Cockroach Labs , a startup that's reinventing how databases work. It's kind of technical, but fortunately Spencer does
The Atlantic has an article arguing that our belief that you should be passionate about your work has the unintended effect of discouraging women from working if they