My South China Morning Post piece on 996 and the culture of overwork
There's a debate going on in China over 996, the practice of working from 9 to 9, six days a week. (Some very tired yet still imaginative writers
Dog is my coauthor
A typical early morning writing. Davis gets up on the couch, insists on being petted, and eventually settles down and goes back to sleep. It's very nice, even
Eating together at work and in negotiations
In the interviews I've done with leaders and workers at companies that have implemented shorter workweeks, I often hear-- in the smaller places at least-- that they eat
There’s no Reverse Parkinson’s Law
So my friends at the 4 Day Week Campaign have released a video about the 4-day workweek: It's a nicely-done piece of work, and if you want a
The downsides of early retirement
Travel and Leisure has a piece about a software developer who retired early-- then went back to work Tony said the biggest thing he missed was human connection....
4-day weeks at the Rockwood Leadership Institute
Almost all the organizations I've been looking at for the new book are for-profit companies. This is more or less by design, since I wanted places that had
The cost of March Madness distraction: $13.3 billion
This isn't the sort of business-related distraction that I usually pay attention to, but the Guardian has a piece about how March Madness will cost businesses more than
Is this the solution to overwork? [Narrator: It was not the solution.]
A while ago I saw this in article asking "How Can We Curb ‘Death by Overwork’?": North is referring to “T-FREND,” a first-of-its-kind drone currently in development by
“the key to his fantastic work… was that he was phenomenally boring”
Sophie Beck's essay on Joan Miró gets at something important: I came to believe that the key to his fantastic work, to the sheer volume of work—he kept
Long hours, weekends and mental health
This 2018 episode of the Life’s Work podcast has an interesting brief conversation about the impact of working long hours and weekends on mental health? UCL researcher and