Rest, Work, and the Good Life

The 4-day week in health care

A new article suggests a trial in the NHS

Nov 5 • 

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

October 2025

We overestimate how much we can work in our 20s and underestimate how much we can work in our 60s

We can do better

Oct 22 • 

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September 2025

Stress in 4-day week companies

Evidence from a new German study

Sep 25 • 

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

How I'm Using Generative AI

Good enough to criticize

Sep 24 • 

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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How 4-day week workers spend their fifth day

Surprise: they use it for good things

Sep 22 • 

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Finding joy in busy lives: New research from Perlow, Mentser and Affinito

Spending your free time deliberately makes for happier time

Sep 19 • 

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Designing the 4-day week

A new free course

Sep 18 • 

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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Embodied cognition in music: Recording Junior Kimbrough

Today I was listening to Mississippi blues guitarist Junior Kimbrough, one of the great hill country blues musicians.

Sep 3 • 

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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August 2025

Embodied cognition, blackboards, and mathematical insight

How we think with things, example one zillion

Aug 23 • 

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AI is an Actor

The metaphors we use for technologies shapes how we approach them. Choose carefully.

Aug 20 • 

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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May 2025

Why creatives carry notebooks all the time

Notebooks, late-night thoughts, and Hideki Yukawa's prediction of the meson

May 27 • 

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April 2025

Capitalism, one last job movies, and the cruel optimism of work

I saw two movies over the weekend: Sinners, about which I’ll have more to say later, and Havoc, the latest Tom Hardy movie.

Apr 28 • 

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