“some of history’s most creative… took rest very seriously”
Author and adventurista Janice Holly Booth has an article on AARP's Life Reimagined Web site that does a fine job of explaining what to do if you "Want
Imported contemplative computing posts
Clowns of Cambridge, where I first started thinking about rest while working on contemplative computing I spent a little time this morning and imported posts from my contemplative
Writing and Research
Kevin Birmingham's Truman Capote Award Acceptance Speech, which he won for his book about the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses, is getting some well-deserved attention for its reflections
Is your brain’s need for stimulation leading to sleep deprivation? You suffer from “Trump Syndrome”!
Science of Us writer Drake Baer lays out the argument that Donald Trump's, umm, distinctive personality characteristics can be blamed on (or are exacerbated by) sleep deprivation: Earlier
If I lose my Amsterdam talk, I’ll have help finding it
The first translation of REST is actually going to appear before the American edition: my super-fast Dutch publisher Kosmos (who also published a translation of The Distraction Addiction) is going
How varied activities contribute to happiness: “‘variety is the spice of life’—but not of an hour”
One of the things I noticed in REST is that the people I was writing about found way stop lead terrifically productive lives, make great discoveries, and create
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
On rap, aerials, and the value of “creative side gigs”
Another Fast Company link, to an article explaining "Why These Two Working Moms Won't Compromise On Pursuing Their Creative Side Gigs." It focuses on Lindsay White, founder of
Greenacre Park, New York City
I was just in New York City and discovered Greenacre Park, a tennis-sized park on 51st Street between a synagogue and apartment building. Greenacre Park was opened in 1971,
“Work less, sleep better” at the School of Life, Amsterdam
So this is what I'm doing on November 23: appearing at The School of Life in Amsterdam, in an event titled "Work less - Sleep better." The Dutch