The restaurants just keep coming: Los Angeles’ n/naka
One more example of a great restaurant that operates on a four-day week: Los Angeles' n/naka, profiled by Helen Rosner in this week's issue of The New Yorker:
It’s not just Michelin-starred restaurants that are doing 4-day weeks
Some of the world's best restaurants-- Noma and Relae in Copenhagen, Maison Baumé in California, Attica in Melbourne, Aizle in Edinburgh-- are shortening working hours for their chefs
Young sociology faculty publish twice as much today as in the 1990s
I’m taking a glance at academic work and careers in the book, and came across this really interesting article by John Robert Warren asking, “How Much Do You
Tash Walker on the Boundless podcast
Last fall I spent some time at The Mix, a London research agency, and interviewed several people about the four-day week. The Mix moved to a four-day week
It’s not just about efficiency: MADE Agency’s 6-hour day
One of the things about companies working shorter hours is that while they pay a lot of attention to tightening up their processes, making meetings more efficient, keeping
The magic trick of workism
Derek Thompson writes in The Atlantic about how workism, "the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production, but also the centerpiece of one’s identity and
The next phase of writing
This weekend I printed out a draft of the next book. It's just under 50,000 words, out of about 70,000. I've still got plenty to write, but I'm
“entitled men who… sneer at those who have to endure the consequences of their actions”
Fintan O'Toole's Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain sounds like a good read. And this bit about the British elite, from the New York Review of Books
Turns out the German word for management consultant is “Managementberater”
I learned this courtesy of a new article, "Pausen auf der Arbeit: Wie Abschalten die Produktivität erhöht" that talks about Rest and other books. I think "management berater" is
“Japanese companies are beginning to embrace… the idea of a four-day workweek”
The Japan Times has an article about "Japanese companies warming up — slowly — to four-day workweek:" Once synonymous with long work hours, Japanese companies are beginning to