#1 in Exercise and Fitness Injury Prevention
One of the amusing things about REST is that Amazon has classified it as a book about, among other things, "Exercise and Fitness Injury Prevention." This is the
REST in Der Tagesspiegel
The German edition of REST (Pause: Tue weniger, erreiche mehr) came out a couple weeks ago, and this weekend Der Tagesspiegel, a Berlin newspaper, ran a length excerpt,
“I cannot recommend this book highly enough!”
"I cannot recommend this book highly enough!" South African strategy consultant Ian Mann says in his review of REST on Fin24, a South African business Web site. "It
Children’s drawings on the Origin of Species manuscript
I've written about my admiration of Charles Darwin as a husband and father, and the way he defied stereotypes of both Romantic Genius (which holds that really talented
“Our job as creative leaders is to be bouncers at the door of Club Rest”
Campaign Live, an online magazine of the creative industry, declares that "it's time to join a movement for rest:" What we need to do is fucking REST. Not
A new project on the craft of academic sabbaticals
What makes a successful academic sabbatical? I want to find out. And I want your help. Few of us get any explicit training in how to take a
Time for those intervals, old folks
I try to get to the gym several days a week, and generally do a mix of weights and cardio. (I need to do more core and ab
Shultz hours and the need for breaks
David Leonhardt has a piece in the New York Times about George Shultz's practice while he was Secretary of State during the Reagan era of taking an hour
New article on the history of spontaneous thought
Later this year Oxford University Press is publishing The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought, edited by Kieran Fox and Kalina Christoff. I have a chapter on the history of
Need to brush up on your German? Read “So wichtig sind Pausen”
As thepPublication of the German edition of REST nears, the Austrian magazine Woman interviews me about work, stress, and rest: Stress, Überarbeitung und wenig Schlaf gelten heute als