The Drum’s 4-day week
The Drum, which covers the marketing industry in Europe, has released a video about the 4-day week at The Lab, a London agency works a 4-day week with
The end of the right’s “general, luxurious unconcern” with criticism?
When news of the Ukraine call and efforts to solicit foreign intelligence on the Biden’s first broke, my wife said, “This feels different.” Lili Loofbourow does a terrific
SHORTER is off to the presses
This afternoon I sent back the final edits to SHORTER (US | UK). At this point, the book has been copyedited and styled, my editor has had her
Marx on “What is a working-day?”
Oxford, 2008 From Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1: “What is a working-day? What is the length of time during which capital may consume the labour-power whose daily value
Wealth “is disposable time, and nothing more”
From The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties, Deduced from Principles of Political Economy, in a Letter to Lord John Russell (published anonymously and later credited to
Adam Smith on the value of moderation
Adam Smith's tomb, Edinburgh Peter Barnard, in a comment on Jenni Russell's recent column talking about REST (US | UK) points to an Adam Smith quote from the
Why isn’t the four-day week a utopia?
Shoreditch, 2018 Wired UK has a piece by Hazel Sheffield explaining "Why four-day working weeks may not be the utopia they seem." To my practiced eye, one thing
“we’re unlikely to be doing quite as essential a job as Eisenhower’s. If he benefited from some down time, so might we”
A few weeks ago the undercover economist Tim Harford had a piece in the Financial Times about my book REST (US | UK) and vacations. It's now up
Now U.S. labor unions are talking about a 4-day week
Unions in the UK have been talking about the 4-day week for some time, and now American unions are starting to take notice, Alexia Fernández Campbell reports in
“Pang’s argument… is that deep, targeted rest, and more of it, improves the quality of our thinking, our work and our lives“
I flew into O’Hare International Airport this afternoon, and when I switched on my phone, I found that Jenni Russell had published a new column in the Times