Weekend Reads 10/1/16

What Happened When I Moved My Company To A 5-Hour Workday

In exchange, though, I had a big ask: I needed each of my team members to be twice as productive as the average worker. We had a high bar of productivity to clear before this, and that didn't change. I told them they just needed to figure out how to do it all in just five hours now—but there'd be support: we'd all need to figure it out and were in this together.

Why Do Most People Leave Religion? They Just...Stop Believing

But the study, released Sept. 22, is full of interesting contradictions, too. While only one-fifth of all nones say morality is fostered by belief in God, one in three believes children should be raised in a religion to learn “good values.”

And while one third of all nones say they do not believe in God, only a fraction — 13 percent — accept the label “atheist.”

America Isn’t Growing Hostile Towards Christians, It’s Growing Hostile Towards Religious Bullies.

There’s a massive difference between freedom to practice one’s religion in a pluralistic society where we all equally have that right, versus enshrining one’s extremist religious views in laws that are imposed on the rest of us.