It’s hard work looking like you’re even busier
Marketing firm Havas has released a survey, “The Modern Nomad: Catch Me If You Can,” which looks at prosumers and their perception and management of time. A couple
A roundup of end-of-vacation posts
Just in time for the end of Labor Day are several articles about vacations, why we don’t take them (or admit to taking them), and what happens when
Is the epidemic of sleep deprivation a myth?
At Quartz, Akshat Rathi challenges the claim that modern times has caused a sleep epidemic. According to a survey conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
“science benefits when we think more and do less”
Susan Fitzpatrick, the president of the McDonnell Foundation, has an opinion piece in The Scientist about the importance of unstructured, social time in doing good science. There was
Salvador Dali: “at the moment of waking… the principal part— that is to say the sleep— of the work is already done”
I'm reading Salvador Dali's Fifty Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, his 1948 book about creativity. A lot of it is as crazy as you would expect. Beethoven with his
Time banking for ER doctors
Brigid Schulte recently had a piece about Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine's "groundbreaking new “time banking” program aimed to ease work-life conflicts for the emergency medicine faculty." It's
Another virtue of naps: lower blood pressure
A new study finds that daytime napping has a positive effect on blood pressure and lowers the need for anti-high blood pressure meds. As the New Zealand Herald reports:
“Make the mistake of focusing too much on what matters most”
Y Combinator’s Sam Altman warns about the perils of “fake work” for startups that can apply to just about any serious creative endeavor. In general, startups get distracted
“Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading — that is a good life.”
From Annie Dillard's The Writing Life: How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one,
John Ashberry on routine
John Ashberry on the importance of routine for a writer, from Jill Krementz's lovely little book, The Writer's Desk: It's important to try to write when you are