Advance reading copy of SHORTER!
I was at Public Affairs today for some meetings (I’m reading the audiobook ofSHORTER (US | UK) and we’re starting to think about the marketing and publicity campaigns)
Microsoft Japan’s 4-day week
One of the concerns that some people raise about the 4-day workweek is that while it might work great at little places that are nimble and flexible, it’s
Covers!
As we march towards... well, March and the publication of SHORTER in the US and UK, the covers are now up on the Public Affairs and Penguin Web
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.”
It’s ALMOST like the problem isn’t just technical: Contractors target homeless people and BET awards in quest for more non-white faces
As anyone following the state of facial recognition and other automated identification systems knows, these systems suffer from bias problems: some have trouble recognizing facial features or detecting
Rest helped me “manage the balance sheet and navigate my part in the P&L through the” crash “in such a way as we made money.“
Banker and portfolio manager Greg McKenna writes in the Australian edition of Business Insider that “As summer approaches, here's some good news – rest more, work less and
6 reasons why it’s more productive to work less
A while ago I had a piece in CEO Magazine (which I believe is published in Australia and New Zealand) offering "6 reasons why it’s more productive to
4-day workweek is #1 “emerging perk,” according to sketchily-sourced survey of millennials
YARAT, Baku The Global Recruiter reports on the results of a survey by Seatfrog about millennial attitudes to perks. [T]oday’s young workers are looking for more than just
Danish municipality trialing a 4-day week
Odsherred Municipality, a rural peninsula an hour north of Copenhagen, is trialing a 4-day week, according to The Local: The northwest Zealand municipality’s 300-strong staff is to be