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Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

I study people, technology, and the worlds they make. My latest book, SHORTER: WORK BETTER, SMARTER, AND LESS-- HERE'S HOW (Public Affairs 2020) , explains how companies have moved to 4-day weeks without reducing profits, sacrificing productivity-- or cutting salaries.It's a sequel to my last book, REST: WHY YOU GET MORE DONE WHEN YOU WORK LESS (Basic Books 2016) , which explores the role that deliberate rest plays in the lives of creative and productive people. The latest paperback edition features a foreword by Arianna Huffington.REST builds on ideas I started exploring in THE DISTRACTION ADDICTION (Little, Brown & Co. 2013) , which explained how we can use information technologies to stay focused and be more creative, rather than distracted and fractured.Together, these books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.I founded Strategy Rest to help organizations that want to implement 4-day weeks and deliberate rest in their own workplaces. Previously I worked in as a technology forecaster and futurist in Silicon Valley think-tanks. I'm also a visiting scholar at Stanford University.I studied history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, and have held fellowships at Williams College, University of California-Berkeley, and Microsoft Research Cambridge. My first book, EMPIRE AND THE SUN: VICTORIAN SOLAR ECLIPSE EXPEDITIONS (Stanford University Press, 2002) , is about, well, Victorian solar eclipse expeditions.



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