This is fascinating and timely for me. I've recently been on some deadlines that have more or less required 36-hour shifts on my part (yes, my choice; yes, enti

This is fascinating and timely for me. I've recently been on some deadlines that have more or less required 36-hour shifts on my part (yes, my choice; yes, entirely unsustainable and likely unhealthy) and have experienced what the author describes. There's been a real liberating feeling of throwing off the culturally imposed standard working, wake, and sleeping hours and going forward with a sense of: "alright, we're awake, we know what we need to do, and we're going to keep trying to do that until we can't" The nights in the city are sublimely quiet in a way I haven't appreciated in the past. Living on a busy road, I now could practically set my clocks to the rumble of the first trucks barrelling by in the five o'clock hour. There is an obvious, from within the state of tired-mind, connection to moderate drunkenness. Inhibitions are lowered, and in my experience it lowers the barrier to action that I've tangled with for most of my adult life. It's an interesting variant of "fuck it, it's gotta get done, let's do it" — not just the work you intend, but for the chores and other tediums previously put off. Anyway, there's a substantial cognitive deficit after 30 hours. Time for a nap.