“Real recreation quickens aspiration”
Whatever dissipates physical or mental power obviously never re-creates. Many eminent men have found almost all the recreation they required through switching from one activity to another, through
REST book cover
Here's the cover for the American version of REST. One of the things I really like about this cover design is that this is a kind of chair
Concentration is contagious
You may find you work better in a coffee shop than in your bedroom, but perhaps not for the reasons you’ve been led to believe. Instead of the
“The content we devour on the internet really can have a lasting effect on our cognitive abilities”
Drugs aren’t the only thing that can addle our brains. New research confirms what your brain may feel following a long, uncontrolled binge through the depths of your
“It is no use saying to the tired ‘mental muscles’… ‘I will lie down and think of nothing'”
One of the best things my wife and I did in London last year was visit the Churchill War Rooms. I had just come from LSE, where I
Workaholics are more likely to have ADHD
Sampling 16,426 Norwegian workers who responded to ads in online newspapers, a team lead by University of Bergen researcher Cecilie Schou Andreassen found that workaholics — or 7.8
Donkey Kong and the limits of neuroscience
Eric Jonas and Konrad Kording wondered, what would happen if they studied the chip in the style of neuroscientists? How would the approaches that are being used to
“Let us be lazy in everything”
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
Paul Lafargue on working hours and factory productivity: Less is more
I started reading Paul Lafargue’s 1883 pamphlet The Right to Be Lazy a couple days ago. Lafargue was a Cuban-born French writer, a wealthy plantation owner’s son who got
Greyscale your smartphone screen to make it less compelling
I hadn’t heard of this idea until this Atlantic video from James Hamblin: