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I'm about halfway through "When, The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing" and it references many studies and topics relating to, obviously, timing. Many hospit
by windexh8er 7y ago
I'm about halfway through "When, The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing" and it references many studies and topics relating to, obviously, timing. Many hospitals have implemented mandatory break schedules to combat this. An interesting read so far, recommended if you enjoy the linked article from the HN post.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35412097-when https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35412097-when
And direct from the author some insights from the book:
'Afternoons are the Bermuda Triangles of our days. Across many domains, the trough represents a danger zone for productivity, ethics, and health. Anesthesia is one example. Researchers at Duke Medical Center reviewed about 90,000 surgeries at the hospital and identified what they called “anesthetic adverse events”— either mistakes anesthesiologists made, harm they caused to patients, or both. Adverse events were significantly “more frequent for cases starting during the 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. hours.” The probability of a problem at 9 a.m. was about 1 percent. At 4 p.m., 4.2 percent. In other words, the chance of something going awry was four times greater during the trough than during the peak. On actual harm (not only a slip up but also something that hurts the patient), the probability at 8 a.m. was 0.3 percent — three-tenths of one percent. But at 3 p.m., the probability was 1 percent — one in every one hundred cases, a threefold increase. Afternoon circadian lows, the researchers concluded, impair physician vigilance and “affect human performance of complex tasks such as those required in anesthesia care.”'
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/youre-more-likely-screw-up-afternoon-heres-how-stop-daniel-pink https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/youre-more-likely-screw-up-af...
- kazagistar 7y agoThe next step though would be individuation of results. Are these consistent, or is there some minority that has the opposite results?
- chrisweekly 7y agoGood call, "When..." is an excellent book. In a related vein, "Algorithms to Live By" is useful and interesting.
- retiredcoder 7y agoQuite interesting links here! Ps: I, on the other hand, am really more productive and attentive to details after lunch and specially after 2pm. Mornings for me are just good for physical activities..