Anne-Marie Slaughter has an essay in the New York Times about today's "Toxic Work World." Following on yesterday's post on Swedish experiments in a six-hour day, it's a depressing
One of the cleverer features on The Guardian right now is a series called “the autocomplete questions,” in which authors take on questions that are popular on Google.
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
A good piece by sociologist of work Peter Fleming asking “ Why do people waste so much time at the office?" A few years ago a disturbing story appeared
From Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists (1912 translation), pp. 96-97: [Leonardo da Vinci] also painted in Milan, for the Friars of S. Dominic, at S. Maria delle
In the course of writing Rest, I’ve come to realize that I need to talk about some issues regarding work. One section I’m now sketching out describes how
From Oakland-based artist Molly McLeod: I’m a fan of the smartphone wallpaper as nudge, having created a few myself (and perhaps inspired WNYC’s Bored and Brilliant wallpapers). You
I've spent some of the happiest hours of my life in bookstores. When I was a child, I would spend afternoons after school in the Vanderbilt bookstore, reading
You know the pushback against the cult of busyness is growing when there’s a Vooza video about it:
One of the things that creative people often do is take short, regular breaks, during which they occupy their minds with things that easily hold their attention. (This