When taking a vacation is good for democracy
Slate reports on the Post-election plans of campaign staff and journalists. tl;dr: Almost to a person they're going to take some time off, and try not to think about
“vacation is serving their business, and their productivity, and their success at their work”
“If a vacation is done well, it gives your ego all this extra time to refuel, by not trying to manage your brain, not trying to be on
“The moment my brain got a moment’s rest, ‘Hamilton’ walked into it”
“It’s no accident that the best idea I’ve ever had in my life — perhaps maybe the best one I’ll ever have in my life — came to
“more than any exotic destination, stillness appears to be the elusive luxury of our age”
The ancient Romans believed in generous vacations: They took sightseeing tours for two to five years at a time. In more recent centuries, Europeans of means and faint
“Thank you for being late”
Almost exactly a year ago, Tom Friedman was at Davos and wrapped up his talk with this: The Arab Spring is failing not for lack of bandwidth, but
Christmas holidays: Time for teachers to unplug from work
Teachers, listen up: this holiday season, don’t grade papers, don’t answer email from parents and students, and don’t think about work. You’ll do a better job next year
A roundup of end-of-vacation posts
Just in time for the end of Labor Day are several articles about vacations, why we don’t take them (or admit to taking them), and what happens when
Slow Down
An important message from a storefront in London, seen this evening: I’m in England for a few days for archival work and interviews, and yes, some rest. It’s
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
“even our means of relaxation is… overstimulation”
"I teach at a university where many students pride themselves on the “study hard, party hard” lifestyle," writes Duke University professor Omid Safi in an essay on "The Disease