One of the things I noticed in REST is that the people I was writing about found way stop lead terrifically productive lives, make great discoveries, and create
Mathematical Bridge, Cambridge It may not be on your calendar, but Sunday October 16 is Hamilton Day, the anniversary of the day Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton carved his most
Another Fast Company link, to an article explaining "Why These Two Working Moms Won't Compromise On Pursuing Their Creative Side Gigs." It focuses on Lindsay White, founder of
There's been a lot of good science that establishes the cognitive benefits of exercise. In the New York Times, Gretchen Reynolds reports on a new study that finds
The canonical (or stereotypical) view of the creative figure is one who is struck by inspiration, often after long periods of hard labor and frustration. This is an
Henri Poincaré was one of the most astute observers of the relationship between the conscious and subsconcious mind in creative work, and he developed a pretty high degree of
Cambridge from the bell tower at St Mary's Church I've quoted from this before, but I love John Littlewood's essay “The mathematician’s art of work,” In this extract, the
One of the great Silicon Valley tropes is that inexperience is a positive. The extreme expression of it-- I'm simplifying here, but not that much-- is that young people who
it's now less than three months before REST comes out. I received a draft of the book jacket yesterday, and it looks fabulous: it's a nice warm, soothing
Sleep, as I say in my book, is the original deliberate rest, an activity that is both natural, and something we can learn to do better. One reason