Joe Robinson is a journalist and work-life balance trainer, speaker and coach. He is author of Work to Live: The Guide to Getting a Life and owner of Work to Live (www.worktolive.info), a work-life management company in Santa Monica, Calif. He has appeared on the Today Show, CNN, NBC Nightly News and All Things Considered, among others, to discuss how Americans can break out of the burnout trap, work smarter and start working to live. His commentaries on the workplace are featured on the public radio program, Marketplace. Joe is a contributing editor to National Geographic Adventure magazine, and his articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Utne, Fast Company, and Entrepreneur. His new book on optimal living is published in 2010.

Blog Entries by Joe Robinson

The Former Music Capital of the World

Posted December 2, 2009 | 10:00 AM (EST)


I love the after-work jazz series at the LA County Museum of Art on Friday nights beginning in the spring, but I haven't been there in years. I can't get there from here, here being the remote realm of the Westside. Okay, I could, but it would take idling well...

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Myanmar's Monks Show the Way

Posted September 26, 2007 | 04:23 PM (EST)


Anyone sick of the endless rhetoric about bravery and heroes that passes for political discourse these days should take a look at the real thing -- the extraordinary uprising going into its second week by the monks of Myanmar. In the pouring rain and scorching heat, they have filed in...

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We Produce, Therefore We Are...Fried

Posted August 17, 2006 | 02:49 PM (EST)


It's vacation primetime, and millions of wage earners are on the road in search of R&R. But for many it will be a futile quest, thanks to a big, fat killjoy stowed away on the trip: OCP, Obsessive-Compulsive Productivity, the frantic fixation to wring results from every minute of the...

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