Salesforce finishes gigantic tower, declares 9-to-5 workweek dead
This is something I wrote about in the Atlantic last year: that the pandemic and our grand experiments with working remotely would have a permanent effect on work
Penguin Connect: “Could this be the moment when the 9-5 as we know it dies?”
San Francisco in the lockdown I hardly know a writer who isn't either studying life under lockdown, or trying to write something about life after lockdown. Alice Vincent
Andrew Barnes on the environmental benefits of 4-day weeks
In the Guardian's New Zealand edition, Perpetual Guardian CEO Andrew Barnes makes the case for the environmental benefits of the 4-day week: If we want to relieve the
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
Visit to Cockroach Labs
On Tuesday I went to New York to meet with SHORTER'S American editor and publicity team about the release of the book. (Fortunately, events like the UK general
WeWork, Lord & Taylor, and the death of leisure
Ginia Bellafante has a piece in the New York Times about the sale of Lord & Taylor to WeWork, and its cultural significance. She she notes, there's a
The flat, non-distracting doorways of the new Apple spaceship
Having written so much in REST and on this blog about the creative power of walks, I was struck by this detail in Julia Love’s Reuters article about
Greenacre Park, New York City
I was just in New York City and discovered Greenacre Park, a tennis-sized park on 51st Street between a synagogue and apartment building. Greenacre Park was opened in 1971,
“The human voice still holds our attention”
Writer Joe Fassler has a piece in The Atlantic on “How Fiction Can Survive in a Distracted World.” It’s mainly a conversation with author Kevin Barry, and it
“structure how information flows through your life”
Two new books, The Organized Mind by psychologist Daniel Levitin, and Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head, talk about the importance of learning how to intelligently offload memory