Former professional cricketer Ed Smith has an essay in the New Statesman explaining how "the best players know the importance of freshness and rest." The nice thing about the
One of the great pleasures of having written Rest is coming across feedback on Twitter or blogs from readers who've enjoyed the book and put it to use
I was on CBC Radio's call-in show "Ontario Today" earlier today, talking about "The key to a restful vacation." You can listen here: It was a fun time for
Tasmanian newspaper The Mercury has a long piece ("Find the time to give it a rest") about REST and Robert Dessaix's fine book The Pleasures of Leisure: Ever
I seem never to have blogged this, but in the June Penn Gazette I have an article about biophysicist Britton Chance, sailing, and deep play. As I explain
Outside Online has a new article, "Eight of Our Favorite Writers on Why They Run." They're not simply writers who also happen to enjoy a jog; all of
I've got a two-part article on Thrive Global up today, around the concept of overwork as laziness. We think of overwork as a sign that we're in-demand, living
When I was in Amsterdam, I took some time to do an interview with the Web magazine Brainwash about REST, work in contemporary society, and creativity. The first
Every now and then a reader suggests that some of the people I talk about in REST aren’t good role models because they were either bad people, or
I have a new ebook out: Rest in the World: My Morning Routine. When you write a book, there are stories that you can't fit into the book, but