Wow, I like this site. Some of the author's analysis seem slightly off to me, but there's a heck of lot of anecdotes and data and quotes. A heck of a lot of anecdotes, data, and quotes makes for good reading.
I particularly liked the part about the sleep habits about the various genius creative people. Cntrl+F "da vinci" to start on that section of the article.
Personally, my best sleeping pattern so far has been a 1-4 hour nap and 4-7 hours of sleep at night. I want to see how low I can go while getting at least a few hours of high level performance and able to function the rest of the day. I don't actually need full speed productivity all of the day and I even prefer cleaning and organizing while I'm a little tired, I get into sort of a zen of it. Anyone else have thoughts on how low you can go while functioning?
Yep, it's a bit of a rant, but an interesting one. Wozniak's an interesting person; I hope you've checked out Supermemo and its open-source counterpart, Mnemosyne.
I've been taking a 20-45 minute nap in the afternoon for close to a year now. I think it was Dustin Curtis's article on polyphasic sleep that prompted me, and I went with the "siesta" schedule because it seemed the most sustainable -- a lot of people do live that way, and getting work done in the mid-afternoon is hopeless for me anyway.
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Wow, I like this site. Some of the author's analysis seem slightly off to me, but there's a heck of lot of anecdotes and data and quotes. A heck of a lot of anecdotes, data, and quotes makes for good reading.
I particularly liked the part about the sleep habits about the various genius creative people. Cntrl+F "da vinci" to start on that section of the article.
Personally, my best sleeping pattern so far has been a 1-4 hour nap and 4-7 hours of sleep at night. I want to see how low I can go while getting at least a few hours of high level performance and able to function the rest of the day. I don't actually need full speed productivity all of the day and I even prefer cleaning and organizing while I'm a little tired, I get into sort of a zen of it. Anyone else have thoughts on how low you can go while functioning?
Yep, it's a bit of a rant, but an interesting one. Wozniak's an interesting person; I hope you've checked out Supermemo and its open-source counterpart, Mnemosyne.
I've been taking a 20-45 minute nap in the afternoon for close to a year now. I think it was Dustin Curtis's article on polyphasic sleep that prompted me, and I went with the "siesta" schedule because it seemed the most sustainable -- a lot of people do live that way, and getting work done in the mid-afternoon is hopeless for me anyway.