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and audio.
From the Away community — on rest, restoration, and what it means to step back.
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.