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From the Away community — on rest, restoration, and what it means to step back.
Sauna-Solstice
Through the light of full moon on winter solstice, sauna balances like nothing else.
It is all made up. You are not.
Nobody designed the world that spends you. That is the problem. A founder's essay on escape plans, measured presence, and the highest score in the house.
Life Post Screens
You need to tell someone you are running twenty minutes late. A five second job. You take the phone out, and eleven minutes later you are watching a stranger renovate a bathroom in Sydney's inner west, the message is sent, and the thing you were doing before has gone cold on the bench.
A Brief History of the Break
Nobody used to take breaks. That sounds like the beginning of a story about how hard our ancestors worked, but it's the opposite. Nobody took breaks because nobody had to. Rest wasn't a decision. It was the structure of the world.
Work Retreats in Nature
There's a way to make work easier, more efficient and meaningful, just around the corner.
The 3-Day Effect: What Happens to Your Brain After 72 Hours in Nature
A cognitive scientist stumbled onto something in the wilderness that he could measure back in the lab: three days in nature makes you roughly 50% better at creative problem-solving. Here's the science - and why we built Away around it.