REST is one of “5 Business Books That Don’t Actually Suck”
Michael Schein's recent piece in Forbes lists "5 Business Books That Don’t Actually Suck," and REST is one of them. The emotion I’m most comfortable with is guilt
In Dulles
Despite my flight from SFO being delayed, I made it to Dulles with time to spare, and am recharging a little. Given how much time I spend on
Sitting in SFO
I’m sitting in SFO, waiting for a red eye to Dulles. I’m headed to Virginia for a couple days, to spend some time with my mother, and to
The man who broke the calendar: About IIH Nordic and its 4-day week
One of the companies I write about in SHORTER (US | UK) is IIH Nordic, a Copenhagen-based data marketing firm that implemented, and has become a Nordic model for, a
The MIT Media Lab: a “glue trap for morally elastic rich people”
The Media Lab has long been academia’s fanciest glue trap for morally elastic rich people. It is a laundromat for capital from some of the world’s least socially
长时间工作可能毫无意义
Pilita Clark's recent Financial Times piece that talks about REST is now available in Chinese. Always good to see the argument for rest popping up in other parts
A note about the blog
This site is built atop a blog I started in 2002. Those 5000+ posts have moved through Blogger, Movable Type, Typepad, and a couple different iterations of WordPress.
Die 5-Stunden-Revolution
While SHORTER (US | UK) moves through production (I get the copyedits next week, and have a bunch of revisions to put in), there's another book about shortening
My appearance on Pepicast
You can listen to me talk about distraction, deliberate rest, and 4-day weeks in a conversation with Montreal-based podcaster Gael Gendre on episode 43 of Gael's podcast, Pepicast. It's one
“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.