My son has a Zen calligraphy over his bed that says, "Doing Nothing Is Something." He’s a middle schooler who sleeps a lot, fantasizes about baseball, and chats for hours about “nothing” with friends.

That relentless drive to stay busy might actually be sabotaging your productivity. While our culture celebrates constant motion and perpetual optimization, emerging research suggests that deliberately ...

Even as I write this, I’m thinking of sitting outside my second-floor apartment and just staring out at what seems like nothing. Thoughts of seeing little movements of almost somethings happening are ...

In our relentless pursuit of productivity, efficiency, and success, we've inadvertently created a culture where "busyness" is worn as a badge of honor. The digital age, with its constant notifications ...

In the midst of financial news that seems to get grimmer by the day, one story of a man trying to escape caught my eye. Andrew Formica, the 51-year-old CEO of a $68 billion investment firm, abruptly ...

Gen Z is now trying a new trend called the “do nothing challenge” on TikTok. It is a simple yet strangely hard experiment and requires a person to sit still and do nothing. It will allow them to not ...

And I mean nothing. I didn’t travel. I didn’t take any classes. I barely even left my parents’ house. I was, in most senses of the word, a boneless blob for the majority of it. Yet it was the best ...

Anti-productivity weekends are becoming a popular lifestyle choice as people embrace slow living and intentional rest to ...

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), the author of a bipartisan health care plan and a moderate Republican whose district voted for ...

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Playwright and performance artist Lulu Lolo as the Mayor of Nothing, standing between 1st and 2nd Avenue on E 14th Street. (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) October brings so many favorable ...