“Our job as creative leaders is to be bouncers at the door of Club Rest”
Campaign Live, an online magazine of the creative industry, declares that "it's time to join a movement for rest:" What we need to do is fucking REST. Not
A new project on the craft of academic sabbaticals
What makes a successful academic sabbatical? I want to find out. And I want your help. Few of us get any explicit training in how to take a
Empty labour is “the simulation of productivity”
I'm starting to read through Roland Paulsen's work on the concept of "empty labor" for my new project on deliberate rest in the modern workplace, and was impressed
Time for those intervals, old folks
I try to get to the gym several days a week, and generally do a mix of weights and cardio. (I need to do more core and ab
Shultz hours and the need for breaks
David Leonhardt has a piece in the New York Times about George Shultz's practice while he was Secretary of State during the Reagan era of taking an hour
The power of walks, chapter one million: Theresa May’s snap election
According to The Guardian's article, "Theresa May calls for UK general election on 8 June:" The prime minister later repeated her suggestion that she was taking the decision
Writing about talking: An old set of posts about the craft of speaking
Sometimes you write something and forget about it for years, only to rediscover it and think, Hey, this isn't bad. (More common is rediscovering something and think, Boy, this is terrible.
New article on the history of spontaneous thought
Later this year Oxford University Press is publishing The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought, edited by Kieran Fox and Kalina Christoff. I have a chapter on the history of
Kurt Vonnegut: “I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day.”
One of the most consistent findings in REST is how many really prolific and creative people do their most important work in about four focused hours a day.
Need to brush up on your German? Read “So wichtig sind Pausen”
As thepPublication of the German edition of REST nears, the Austrian magazine Woman interviews me about work, stress, and rest: Stress, Überarbeitung und wenig Schlaf gelten heute als