Sitemap - 2017 - Rest, Work, and the Good Life

Muhlenhaupt + Company reimagines REST

My appearance on BBC World Service Business Daily

Speaking to BBC World Service Business Daily this morning

Another example of overwork leading to product flaws: The GoPro Karma drone

REST is available as an audiobook

Lin-Manuel Miranda: "I should take more vacations"

"Never underestimate the power of nature, exercise, and the arts to inspire productivity, creativity and working smarter"

REST and disconnecting in RescueTime

Putting REST to use at the New York Times

"you don’t need to choose between your smartphone and self-care,"

Jabra video on deliberate rest

"I devised a way of working like a bat out of hell, or anyway a bat out of the nursery:" Antonia Fraser on writing

Kazuo Ishiguro on "crash" and writing The Remains of the Day

"Accomplishment is the best form of self-affirmation"

"I have only read the introduction, but have already underlined something on every page."

"Exploitation is encoded into the systems we are building"

The Chinese cover of REST

REST in the November Leader Box

"Love Hope Peace" on REST

Stephon Alexander, physics, jazz, and inspiration

Utrecht and Happinez festival

"overwork is just one tool to fight deadlines, and not a solution of first resort"

Dealing with rejection is a writer's most important professional skill

"I think anyone in any type of creative, scientific, or business field should pick this up:" more reviews of REST

Entrepreneurs reading Rest

Saiid Kobeisy talks about the importance of rest in Vogue Arabia

"10 Ways That Working Less Will Make You More Productive"

"I resolved never to read a mathematical book for more than a quarter of an hour at a time, without a break"

Oliver Burkeman on the four-hour working day

Archival work as strategic wandering

"make the best hours your own rather than those you sell to an employer"

"the best players know the importance of freshness and rest:" Ed Smith on practice and rest

"rest is as important" as "ticking off all those items on our to-do list:" Readers on REST

Honolulu fights 'smartphone zombies'

When the world doesn't provide us stimulation, it's offering us a gift: More on creativity and boredom

On rest and value of boredom

Talking about restful vacations on CBC Ontario Today

"I no longer let myself be bored. I wondered just how bad that was for a writer—or for any other creative type"

Vacations, boredom, and stress: Recent articles and an upcoming radio show

My new writing desk

Find the time to give it a rest

Sailing, science, and the power of deep play

Outside on writers, running, and the importance of deep play

Overwork as laziness: My latest pieces for Thrive Global

Get Brainwashed: Talking about work and rest with Brainwash.nl

How good a model is Darwin (or Jefferson, or Hemingway)?

My new ebook: Rest in the World: My Morning Routine

Japanese edition of REST

A note on morning routines

Freelancers need to rest, too

"there isn’t even a whiff of hippie wishy-washiness:" Readers review REST

"a life spent dutifully responding to emails is a dull one indeed. And 'wasted' time is, in fact, highly fulfilling"

"I’ve run through a lot of my life, only to discover that the most successful people get more done when they slow down and rest"

Portugese edition of REST

Cover of Japanese edition of REST

John Cleese, Graham Wallas, and preparation for insight

Focus, mind-wandering, and the brain

REST and the Greater Good Science Center

#1 in Exercise and Fitness Injury Prevention

REST in Der Tagesspiegel

"I cannot recommend this book highly enough!"

Children's drawings on the Origin of Species manuscript

"Our job as creative leaders is to be bouncers at the door of Club Rest"

A new project on the craft of academic sabbaticals

Time for those intervals, old folks

Shultz hours and the need for breaks

New article on the history of spontaneous thought

Need to brush up on your German? Read "So wichtig sind Pausen"

Article in Health Bloggers Community Magazine

Daily creativity and flourishing

7 Days to the German edition of REST

Smartphone distraction and pedestrian deaths

Toy-free play

Deliberate rest and daily schedules

Reader video about REST

Gardening and deep play

"Rest condemns neither hard work nor perfectionism, but rather celebrates both"

I'm interviewed on local access middle school TV

Talking about "The Importance of Rest" on RadioWest

Was digital distraction responsible for the Oscar gaffe?

On Inside Mastery

REST in Red Bulletin magazine; or, beaten by Metallica in four languages

Embodied cognition and Rest

The flat, non-distracting doorways of the new Apple spaceship

"The writing stuff just has much faster reinforcement rates, and so it’s real addictive"

Because we "treat overwork as a badge of honour... we have forgotten the importance of rest"

"Je brein werkt door als je bewust rust:" I don't know what it means, but apparently I said it

Reviews of Rest while I was away

"This book has something to offer anyone looking for new ways to structure their daily lives"

My DLD17 session with Arianna Huffington is now online

"a routine was essential for the prose writing"

Evening Standard and Polish Express on Rest

Review of Rest in The Hindu

Deliberate rest in AskMen

"If you're prone to burnout or still believe that overwork actually works, this book will set you straight"

Rest, Health And Well Being

Is work-life balance a myth?

Gestures and Childhood Creativity

REST is one of Success Magazines 2016’s Best Books

Speaking at American Library Association, January 21

"Busy men find life very short:" Seneca on busyness, leisure and time