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I got myself stuck in a bit of a rut at work a couple of years ago and had basically let myself become worthless in the job market and to get myself out of it I

by teddyuk 11y ago

I got myself stuck in a bit of a rut at work a couple of years ago and had basically let myself become worthless in the job market and to get myself out of it I re-skilled (re-learnt an old skill) in my own time, got a new job working with that and also started writing / blogging / coding on the side. I regularly go to sleep after midnight and get up before 6 (young children etc). What I am getting at is that it is hard but possible to get by on less sleep (although 20 mins meditation helps) - although there are def times when I realise that I should just stop and go to sleep from a quality point of view. Having a family who actually wants to see me they wouldn't put up with me taking a laptop on holiday and I won't work on weekends during the day (maybe a conf or something once or twice a year) - I will work in the evening.

fweespeech 11y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sleep-t.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sleep-t.htm... > The six-hour subjects fared no better — steadily declining over the two weeks — on a test of working memory in which they had to remember numbers and symbols and substitute one for the other. The same was true for an addition-subtraction task that measures speed and accuracy. All told, by the end of two weeks, the six-hour sleepers were as impaired as those who, in another Dinges study, had been sleep-deprived for 24 hours straight — the cognitive equivalent of being legally drunk. https://hbr.org/2006/10/sleep-deficit-the-performance-killer https://hbr.org/2006/10/sleep-deficit-the-performance-killer > People like this put themselves, their teams, their companies, and the general public in serious jeopardy, says Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, the Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School.1 To him, encouraging a culture of sleepless machismo is worse than nonsensical; it is downright dangerous, and the antithesis of intelligent management. He notes that while corporations have all kinds of policies designed to prevent employee endangerment—rules against workplace smoking, drinking, drugs, sexual harassment, and so on—they sometimes push employees to the brink of self-destruction. Being “on” pretty much around the clock induces a level of impairment every bit as risky as intoxication. The majority of people can't run on 6 hours of sleep. It is the luck of genetics to be able to do that on a regular basis and pretending it is anything else is silly. I can point to numerous articles like these with similar results.

by teddyuk 11y ago

fweespeech 11y ago

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sleep-t.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sleep-t.htm... > The six-hour subjects fared no better — steadily declining over the two weeks — on a test of working memory in which they had to remember numbers and symbols and substitute one for the other. The same was true for an addition-subtraction task that measures speed and accuracy. All told, by the end of two weeks, the six-hour sleepers were as impaired as those who, in another Dinges study, had been sleep-deprived for 24 hours straight — the cognitive equivalent of being legally drunk. https://hbr.org/2006/10/sleep-deficit-the-performance-killer https://hbr.org/2006/10/sleep-deficit-the-performance-killer > People like this put themselves, their teams, their companies, and the general public in serious jeopardy, says Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, the Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School.1 To him, encouraging a culture of sleepless machismo is worse than nonsensical; it is downright dangerous, and the antithesis of intelligent management. He notes that while corporations have all kinds of policies designed to prevent employee endangerment—rules against workplace smoking, drinking, drugs, sexual harassment, and so on—they sometimes push employees to the brink of self-destruction. Being “on” pretty much around the clock induces a level of impairment every bit as risky as intoxication. The majority of people can't run on 6 hours of sleep. It is the luck of genetics to be able to do that on a regular basis and pretending it is anything else is silly. I can point to numerous articles like these with similar results.