Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Author and consultant
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang writes on technology, people and the worlds they create. He wrote Rest and The Distraction Addiction.
2 summaries 45 min of listening
Born in the United States
About Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang trained in the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a fellow at Williams College, the University of California-Berkeley and Microsoft Research Cambridge. The Distraction Addiction, published in 2013, looks at how information technologies can help people stay focused and creative. Rest, from 2016, looks at how deliberate rest shapes the lives of productive, creative people. His later book Shorter (2020) is about companies moving to 4-day weeks. He leads 4 Day Week Studio, a consultancy that helps organizations plan and introduce four-day weeks.