Koreans drink coffee more often than they eat kimchi or rice
One thing I recently got interested in is coffee consumption around the world. In most of the world, growing coffee consumption can serve as a way of measuring
Sleep deprivation and Eurozone creditor negotiations
Amid its constant, nonstop (and pretty good) coverage of the Greek crisis, the Guardian ran a piece today about the effects of sleep deprivation on decision-making. "The Greek
Winston Churchill on “painting as a pastime”
I’m just back from a trip to England, where I was doing interviews and archival work for Rest. While most of my time was spent in the British
Another data-point for my “Admit It: You Want To Kill Your Employees” article
Claire Cain Miller’s article about “The 24/7 Work Culture’s Toll on Families and Gender Equality” in The New York Times is fascinating, both for what it tells us about
“Control of the mind… can be accomplished with deliberation and repose, never with hurry and worry”
From William Osler’s A Way of Life: An Address to Yale Students, Sunday evening, April 20th, 1913: Control of the mind as a working machine, the adaptation in it
Faking for Superman: Crafting the appearance of overwork
Erin Reid, a professor at Boston University’s business school, has a great piece in the Harvard Business Review about how men and women deal with pressure to be
“people are treated more and more like disposable machines:” The Japan’s Disposable Workers series
As part of the research for Rest, I’ve been interviewing digital nomads, people who combine work and travel, running their businesses or doing freelance work in coworking spaces