Cat cafe and Namsan Park
After the Gongpyeong Historic Site Museum, I walked to Myeongdong. I needed lunch, and wanted to keep up my track record of only eating things cooked on a
The amazing Gongpyeong Historic Sites Museum
About a mile from the Gyeongbokgung Palace, in the basement of a skyscraper, is one of the most remarkable museums I’ve ever visited: the Gongpyeong Historic Sites Museum.
Gyeongbokgung Palace
Sunday morning I hopped on the metro and headed over to Gyeongbokgung Palace, the biggest of the several Joeson era palaces in Seoul. It’s a super-popular location for
Greetings from Seoul, where I’m researching four-day weeks in Asian companies
I'm in Seoul for the next several days, doing some publicity stuff for REST (my dad tells me that the translation is really top-notch), and also doing some
The Wellcome Trust thinks about four-day weeks
The Guardian, which really owns the beat on the shorter workweeks trend, reports that the Wellcome Trust "is considering moving all of its 800 head office staff to
Sick days and overwork vs shorter hours
The New York Times has a piece about "The Death of the Sick Day," about how the sick day is disappearing from the office vocabulary, even as we
“I have learned not to feel guilty whenever I close the laptop”
Stem cell researcher Dr Cristina Lo Celso talks the Academy of Medical Sciences about her work, and rest. This bit in particular jumped out at me: I have
Circadian rhythms and work rhythms
The New York Times has an interesting piece about efforts to match work schedules to circadian rhythms: At the Denmark offices of the pharmaceutical company AbbVie, employees design
“the first step to the investigation of the creative mind is the historical approach”
From the opening page of Rosamund E. M. Harding's The Anatomy of Inspiration: We venture to suggest, therefore, that the first step to the investigation of the creative
Insecure overachievers
For some time, I've talked about why overwork has become the new normal, even for people who are fairly economically secure, or who have lots of control over