Cambridge from the bell tower at St Mary's Church I've quoted from this before, but I love John Littlewood's essay “The mathematician’s art of work,” In this extract, the
This week I reviewed the dust jacket for REST. I've always liked the book's cover, with its sling chair, but the whole package just looks terrific. We were lucky to
One of the enduring myths of creativity is that creative people who treat their families badly do so because the weight of their genius keeps them from being good spouses and
One of the great Silicon Valley tropes is that inexperience is a positive. The extreme expression of it-- I'm simplifying here, but not that much-- is that young people who
In the BBC Radio 4 show The Quest for Rest, poet SJ Fowler talks about the creative value of working out. We often don’t think of working out as a
it's now less than three months before REST comes out. I received a draft of the book jacket yesterday, and it looks fabulous: it's a nice warm, soothing
Sleep, as I say in my book, is the original deliberate rest, an activity that is both natural, and something we can learn to do better. One reason
BBC Radio 4 has started a new three-part series on The Anatomy of Rest. The first episode, The Quest for Rest, is being broadcast now. Here's the abstract: Rest sounds
When I was researching REST, I discovered that one of the best sources for material on writer's routines was The Paris Review. (I've posted quotes from other Paris
The latest issue of Scientific American Mind has an interview with me ("Q&A: Why a Rested Brain Is More Creative") about REST and its big ideas. Ferris