“A walk of twenty or thirty miles a day is one of his favorite amusements”
One of the things that constantly amazes me about our ancestors is how much more exercise they got in the course of a day, and especially how much
Dan Ariely and fighting the “thieves of our time, thieves of our attention, thieves of our productivity”
Business Insider’s Eric Barker has a nice profile of Dan Ariely’s recent work on productivity and time management. For those of you who aren’t familiar with his books,
Stephen King on writing as “creative sleep”
One of the arguments I'm building in the rest project is that for creative people, work and rest are not opposites, but partners. We think of rest as
Ray Bradbury on the muse, and ten years of practice
Of all the writers I know, Ray Bradbury is probably the most eloquent proponent of the idea that inspiration is unbiddable and uncontrollable, that his stories came from
“what the most productive 10% of our users have in common is their ability to take effective breaks”
A study recently conducted by the Draugiem Group, a Latvian IT company, provides another data-point about the important of rest in a good day’s work. Julia Gifford, a writer and
“Do what you love” is terrible advice
Is there a more common piece of career advice today than “do what you love?” I’ve heard it for ages, and I certainly think that being in a
“I discovered me in the library:” Ray Bradbury
The Paris Review has a fantastic series of interviews with authors and poets. This one with Ray Bradbury is great: I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in
C. S. Lewis
In Surprised by Joy, C. S. Lewis describes his time living in Great Bookham with William Kirkpatrick, a former school headmaster who tutored students preparing for university entrance