A dissent on the 4-day workweek
Ohio State University professor Allard Dembe has a piece about the potential downsides of a 4-day workweek: I have been studying the health effects of long working hours
“there is much to be said for Mr Pang’s conclusion that the belief in the power of the 80-hour week is piffle.”
Financial Times editor and columnist Pilita Clark has a piece that puts REST against the workaholic pose of the current government: Brexit, one of the most important events
How conforming to ideology gets money-laundered into expressing personal preference
A friend recently asked me how much things like our embrace of overwork and the M-curve in women's employment (the phenomenon of women dropping out of the workforce
“Many modern workplaces, with their lures of perks and prestige, are increasingly resembling the Fyre festival”
Bruce Daisley, podcaster, Twitter executive, and author of The Joy of Work and the forthcoming Eat Sleep Work Repeat, has a short and great piece in The Guardian
“Medicine has become something of a stealth family-friendly profession”
Claire Cain Miller, who writes some great stuff about work and family for the New York Times, has a piece about mothers and medical practice: Medicine has become
as Pang “notes, we’re unlikely to be doing quite as essential a job as Eisenhower’s. If he benefited from some down time, so might we.”
Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist, had a nice column in the Financial Times that talks about Rest: Three reasons to take a holiday — especially a
Jamie Oliver and the economics of publishing
This little factoid in the New York Times profile of Jamie Oliver stood out for me: Books, however, remain the engine of the Oliver machine: He has sold
My appearance on Docuprime
The Korean documentary series Docuprime recently had an episode on work, rest, burnout, which features an appearance by me and the dogs. This evening I found it on
“Success in short sprints”: A gloss on the Google talk
Medium writer Roamy has written a short piece that summarizes some of the key points from my recent Google talk. As an author, it’s always good to see
Korean article about rest
I was recently on a documentary in Korea about rest and creativity, and this article is a gloss of some of the contents. Of course, since this is