Rest with Alex Pang
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsConversations about work, rest, and the future of work, hosted by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Ph.D., author of REST.
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Some of the World’s Best Restaurants are Learning to Rest
September 20, 2018 17:37 - 25 minutes - 26.3 MBCooking at elite restaurants is one of the most creatively and physically demanding jobs in the world. You're constantly experimenting with new combinations of foods, looking for unusual and imaginative juxtapositions; reinventing ways of preparing familiar dishes; even developing new cooking methods (hello sous vide!). They have to turn creative breakthroughs into viable products: they must take something that took weeks to develop, and turn it into a dish that can be prepared by chefs on t...
Lasse Rheingans and the 5-Hour Workday at Rheingans Digital Enabler
August 30, 2018 07:05 - 23 minutes - 22.4 MBAnd we're back! I'm afraid I was off for a couple weeks in England, doing some research and other interviews, then had lots of other things that demanded my attention when I got back. So my apologies for the hiatus. I know there are so few podcasts in the world, it's a hardship to be without an episode. But the wait is worth it. Here, I talk with Lasse Rheingans, the head of Rheingans Digital Enabler, about moving his company to a 5-hour workday. It's a fascinating conversation, and it's go...
Jessica de Bloom and the Science of Vacations
July 14, 2018 21:37 - 26 minutes - 25.5 MBSince we're in the middle of summer break, I thought it would be fitting to take a break from the shorter hours interviews, and talk about something that's on everyone's mind: vacations. Many of us have a conflicted relationships with vacations. We expect a lot from them, we spend a lot on them, but we don't always get everything we want from them. When we go somewhere new, our default mode is to pack the days full of activities (this is doubly true if you have children), then we come home ...
Spencer Kimball and Free Fridays at Cockroach Labs
July 05, 2018 13:00 - 39 minutes - 37.3 MBIn this episode I talk to Spencer Kimball, cofounder of Cockroach Labs, a startup that's reinventing how databases work. It's kind of technical, but fortunately Spencer does a great job of explaining what they're doing. He also does an excellent job of explaining Cockroach Labs' "Free Fridays," and how they've designed their work week to give everyone one day a week to work on their own projects, even as they build a product designed to compete against products made by giants like Microsoft,...
Annie Tevelin and SkinOwl's 24-Hour Week
June 29, 2018 13:00 - 27 minutes - 26.2 MBIn this episode, I talk to Annie Tevelin, the founder of Los Angeles-based cosmetics company SkinOwl. Annie founded SkinOwl after studying cosmetics chemistry at UCLA; before that, she had a career in Hollywood as a makeup artist with Lancôme. SkinOwl is sold online, and is sold on five continents-- not bad for a small company that operates on a 4-day week and a 6-hour day. Annie talks about her background, how SkinOwl provides great customer service and feedback while giving people Mondays...
Stephan Aarstol and Tower Paddleboard's five-hour day
June 21, 2018 13:00 - 23 minutes - 23.1 MBMy first episode presents a conversation with Stephan Aarstol, a southern California entrepreneur, founder of the stand-up paddleboard and beach lifestyle company Tower Paddleboards, and author of The Five-Hour Workday. Stephan talks about how he decided to move his company to a five-hour workday; what challenges you face when you shorten the workday; and what benefits come from it. Lots of people who've implemented shorter working hours at their company mention Stephan's work as an inspira...
Is this thing on?
June 10, 2018 21:36 - 4 minutes - 4.57 MBFollowing the publication of the paperback edition of my book REST: WHY YOU GET MORE DONE WHEN YOU WORK LESS, I'm starting a new podcast about work, rest and the future. It will discuss the themes I cover in my books REST and THE DISTRACTION ADDICTION, and give listeners a preview of my new project on the future of work. In this preview, I present excerpts from interviews with leaders who are shortening the work day at their companies, and seeing productivity and profitability go up as a res...