Boris Johnson and the dangers of overwork
I confess that this is not a quote that made it into REST (there's already lots of Churchill, anyway): He boasted to me in the humble-brag way peculiar
“let yourself be ‘lazy’ enough to only focus on what’s critical”
Good advice from Bill Gates (whose "think week" tradition earns him a place in REST): “Bill Gates once said he liked hiring smart, lazy people because they know
“The moment my brain got a moment’s rest, ‘Hamilton’ walked into it”
“It’s no accident that the best idea I’ve ever had in my life — perhaps maybe the best one I’ll ever have in my life — came to
“nobody knows what is going to happen but everyone can explain it afterwards”
Britain cannot leave Europe any more than Piccadilly Circus can leave London. Europe is where we are, and where we will remain. Britain has always been a European
Waiting for the Weekend – The Atlantic
[G. K.] Chesterton argued that a man compelled by lack of choice or by social pressure to play golf when he would rather be attending to some solitary
“The police, army and refugees could agree” that they “all dreaded a day without internet”
This is a heck of a story: Kevin MacRitchie surveyed the inferno spreading across Diavata refugee camp. From his vantage point on the roof, where he had been
Journeyman + 20
Twenty years ago I published an essay on the psychological and practical aspects of leaving academia. I had recently moved from U.C. Davis to Chicago and a job at Encyclopedia
“more than any exotic destination, stillness appears to be the elusive luxury of our age”
The ancient Romans believed in generous vacations: They took sightseeing tours for two to five years at a time. In more recent centuries, Europeans of means and faint
Boyd Varty on lions, rest, and the wisdom of nature
Boyd Varty, the South African writer and conservationist, talks about lions and rest in the the latest TED Radio Hour podcast (starts around 26 minutes in): I grew
Something else to look forward to when the 1% get even more: Human sacrifice
Anthropologists and historians have put forward the ‘social control hypothesis’ of human sacrifice. According to this theory, sacrificial rites served as a function for social elites. Human sacrifice