The US needs to shift away from its workaholic culture, but old habits are hard to break. And this is indeed an old one. Some of the nation’s founders would likely have loved admin night. Take Benjamin Franklin. An exemplar of the American work ethic, he achieved fame for his clever, if moralizing, dicta pushing frugality, sobriety and industry. “Leisure is time for doing something useful,” he once wrote. “This leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never.”