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I’m on the Worth Owning podcast, in a delightful conversation of founder Krystyn Harrison, talking about the 4-day week, why founders should embrace it, and how to get started.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: 10 Weeks Back a Year, The 4-Day Week Blueprint for Founders

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I'm Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, the author of Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less; Shorter: Work Better, Smarter and Less-- Here's How; and The Distraction Addiction.

I founded 4 Day Week Studio, where I help organizations design shorter workweeks without cutting salaries, or reducing quality or professional standards.

I continue to write about the 4-day week, rest, and related subjects on my Substack, Rest, Work, and the Good Life.

How work happens Reading about Ruth Asawa and the midcentury rise of the artist-mother in San Francisco. @amyporterfield implemented a #4dayweek at her company in 2022. In this podcast, she talks about their experience, how they make it work, and what the ups and downs are. It's a great episode, and well worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxcMo8sziDY Incredible that she doesn’t mind being a laptop stand. (And fortunate that the heat dissipation on the MacBooks is so good.) I’ve written a lot about how creatives work, but I can’t recall Dickens or Zweig or Austen ever using a dog as a book-stand or writing desk. But since I’m writing a workbook companion to REST, it’s good to have an expert collaborator on the project. My daughter’s dog has decided that she’s not a pittie, she’s a bookstand. Meanwhile the other dog is offering a master class on rest. The productivity boost of the distraction free full screen mode is somewhat reduced when your desk is snoring and wiggling. This week I read A YEAR OF NOTHING, the new book by @emmagannonuk that offers a month-by-month view of burnout and recovery from the ground rather than the expert’s “view from nowhere.” It’s a great book, both as a piece of writing, and as a published artifact (notable since the US version is self-published). Highly recommended! (Though I still haven’t worked out if I preordered it in an immediately-forgotten act of authorial solidarity, or the publishing fairies dropped it off, or what.)

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