As a night owl and an introvert, there's this perverse feedback loop where I'm incentivized to be underslept before an important presentation, because the sligh

As a night owl and an introvert, there's this perverse feedback loop where I'm incentivized to be underslept before an important presentation, because the slight good humor / mania / heightened senses (and, I would add, a mild numbness to peoples' judgments about me) help me do a better job of the presentation. Of course, I'm not advocating that people be totally loopy! But there's a weird Ballmer peak-esque [1] effect. [1] https://xkcd.com/323/ https://xkcd.com/323/