Speaking at Life Lessons in London, February 2020
I'm going back to London in February to speak at Life Lessons, a conference at the Barbican! Wellbeing isn't about lycra and fad diets. Its aim is not
New York Times article on sabbaticals
This sign sums up my sabbatical I’m quoted in an article about “Do-It-Yourself Sabbaticals” in today’s New York Times. It’s a good piece, if I do say so
Historian of technology David Edgerton: “The state can no longer undertake the radical planning and intervention that might make Brexit work”
David Edgerton, an historian of technology who teaches at King’s College London, writes that “Brexit is a necessary crisis – it reveals Britain’s true place in the world.”
“there is much to be said for Mr Pang’s conclusion that the belief in the power of the 80-hour week is piffle.”
Financial Times editor and columnist Pilita Clark has a piece that puts REST against the workaholic pose of the current government: Brexit, one of the most important events
as Pang “notes, we’re unlikely to be doing quite as essential a job as Eisenhower’s. If he benefited from some down time, so might we.”
Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist, had a nice column in the Financial Times that talks about Rest: Three reasons to take a holiday — especially a
Jamie Oliver and the economics of publishing
This little factoid in the New York Times profile of Jamie Oliver stood out for me: Books, however, remain the engine of the Oliver machine: He has sold
“You play football to escape your problems; you run to solve them”
Jeremy Hunt went running with Matt Chorley on the Red Box Politics Podcast, and talked about running and problem-solving. (And, in the interests of balance, here’s an episode featuring
York Minster stone masons tour
I was recently in England with my wife, and one of the highlights of the trip was a spur-of-the-moment tour we took in York Minster of the stone
Tash Walker on the Boundless podcast
Last fall I spent some time at The Mix, a London research agency, and interviewed several people about the four-day week. The Mix moved to a four-day week
“entitled men who… sneer at those who have to endure the consequences of their actions”
Fintan O'Toole's Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain sounds like a good read. And this bit about the British elite, from the New York Review of Books