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The Blank Screen newsletter for 13 March 2015…

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It’s out. If you’re on the mailing list, you got it HOURS ago. If you’re not on the mailing list, you can put that right.

And you can read this week’s edition online right now.

This week we’ve got a video about decluttering your head and all the tasks in there. We’ve some distressingly persuasive information about switching off our bleedin’ phones and we have the tiniest tip for making meetings go better. But then we’ve all been in meetings that we’d take anything, up to cyanide, if it made them finish sooner.

Weekend read (quite literally)

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The Atlantic on the origins of the weekend and of the purely historical reasons we have five-day weeks.

Do we? Only five?

Plus the ways you may and some are changing things:

If it’s man-made, can’t man unmake it? For all the talk of how freeing it’d be to shave a day or two off the five-day workweek, little attention has been paid to where the weekly calendar came from. Understanding the sometimes arbitrary origins of the modern workweek might inform the movement to shorten it.

Where the Five-Day Work Week Came From – Philip Sopher, The Atlantic (21 August 2014)