Thinking together about the future draws people closer
In my work with organizations moving to a 4-day week, one of the things I like to do is take them through a scenario process: to think of
Alice Flaherty on creativity and danger
Neurologist Alice Flaherty, author of the book Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Disease, has an interesting TEDx talk on creativity and danger:
4-day week and the climate
Allyson Chiu writes in the Washington Post about "How a four-day workweek could be better for the climate:" Reducing the workweek to four days could have a climate
New study suggests “an association between creativity and physical activity in everyday life”
In my book Rest, I talked at length about the surprising research suggesting the virtues of physical activity for creatives. There’s lots of biographical data (or anecdotes) that
What online and offline chess tournaments can tell us about the impact of lockdowns on cognitive performance
Researchers have been studying the productivity effects of remote work and work from home for years, and generally the results have trended in a positive direction. Stanford
Air quality and cognitive performance
I have an air purifier beside my desk. Not by design: they're just close to each other because both are close to one of the few easily-accessible power
New study: Air quality affects chess players’ ability
The Times reports on a new study on the impact of pollution on cognitive performance: Chess players make worse decisions when they breathe dirtier air, suggesting that even
“The idea here is not that we should start to off random senior scientists to make room for the new blood”. (Or is it?)
Stata Center, MIT Inside Higher Ed reports on a new study by MIT professor Pierre Azoulay on the impact of the deaths of star scientists on their fields.
How much do we need to work to be happy?
One of the objections I sometimes get to the 4-day workweek runs something like this: Since we know that unemployment makes people unhappy, doesn’t this mean that reducing
“I have learned not to feel guilty whenever I close the laptop”
Stem cell researcher Dr Cristina Lo Celso talks the Academy of Medical Sciences about her work, and rest. This bit in particular jumped out at me: I have