New studies on physician burnout
The Washington Post has an article on two new studies looking at physician burnout. One looks at burnout among young doctors, while the other underscores how challenging it’s
“I need you to be great for 48 hours, then I need you to go and forget about this:” Ben Shewry on changing the culture of cooking
Ben Shewry talks with food journalist Lisa Abend at the 2018 MAD symposium about becoming a chef, and fighting back against the culture of overwork and harassment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1S_sD5lZss He starts
Some of the World’s Best Restaurants are Learning to Rest
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-baub6-9a414a Cooking at elite restaurants is one of the most creatively and physically demanding jobs in the world. You're constantly experimenting with new combinations of foods, looking for
“It was really unfair that we were being pushed out of the business that we love… because some other people long before us had constructed a system that was broken:” elite restaurants are taking rest seriously
https://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/5504032913/in/album-72157626196419985/ A few months ago, I came across an article about an Edinburgh restaurant that shifted to a four-day schedule. A couple days ago, I saw the article
Doing what you love doesn’t mean being consumed by it
This morning I saw this tweet by Brooklyn-based illustrator Adam Kurtz: (And yes, I took a screenshot of the tweet rather than figure out how to embed it.
The school day-workday mismatch
The Atlantic has an article asking “Why Does the School Day End 2 Hours Before the Workday?” Across the country, parents are struggling to balance their busy work
This is not a crazy idea
Chris Bailey has a piece in the New York Times about focus, distraction, and quality of work: When it comes to focusing at work, there is no shortage
Giving away some books
My UK publishers sent me a box of copies of the new paperback edition of REST (the one with the foreword by Arianna Huffington). One thing I’ve learned
One New Mexico school districts’ 4-day week
One of my old elementary schools, now closed and scheduled for demolition, Waynesboro, VirginiaPBS' News Hour recently had a piece about Bayard, New Mexico, a school district that
Self-help ≠ you’re on your own: New work on career advice vs. advocacy
When writing The Distraction Addiction and Rest, I could never shake a certain uneasiness with both projects: my concern that the self-help genre lets corporations and culture off