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The post is basically suggesting you take your unproductive time (at the end of your day when you are tired) and shift it on to your employer while taking your most productive time (when you first wake up) and keeping it for yourself. I'm not coming out for or against that I'm just making the point.
"embrace polyphasic sleep". Not as easy as you would think. Also, most job schedules don't really allow for a polyphasic sleep schedule.
Plus, it is most probably harmful: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic.htm Maybe the author was talking about biphasic sleep (a smaller core night sleep with a big siesta)?
(copy-paste from my comment on the "How to nap..." article)
I'm the author of the post. I posted it here because I think it can be relevant to programmers. I understand many people like to work at night, but for those who are ok with getting up early, it's really something worth trying. In my (limited) experience it's not hard to study programming topics when you just woke up, instead it takes a good 30 minutes or more if you want to concentrate on a bright monitor (but you c…
Celebrate your 40th birthday or so. Then you will find it to be no problem to rise at 5, even if you went to bed at 11:30 or midnight.
I'm the author of the post. I posted it here because I think it can be relevant to programmers. I understand many people like to work at night, but for those who are ok with getting up early, it's really something worth trying. In my (limited) experience it's not hard to study programming topics when you just woke up, instead it takes a good 30 minutes or more if you want to concentrate on a bright monitor (but you c…
I read your post, but not any previous ones where you may have addressed this: is the sun up at 5am where you live? I always find it much easier to wake up early if the sun is already up. If the sun is still down, do you do anything to trick your body into thinking the sun is up? Does it help?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've found the 10 hour day concept (or 4/40 as it's called in HR circles) to have unintended negative consequences for both sides of the equation. On the side of the employer it's just as you say: employees who are less productive because those last 2 hours are almost worthless. On the employee side you end up doing 2 hours or so of additional work on your "off day" because everyone else is still in the office and th…
If you allow people to contact you on your off day (and it could Sat/Sun too, not just Friday), people will contact you... but if set the precedence that you won't reply/answer then those same things will be asked on Thursday. I've worked a 4/40 for three years now and never had this issue. In regards to being productive, that really depends the person and the work they do. I tend to do half development and a mixture…
I do run a results-oriented shop. We have some guys who essentially work a 4 day work week (I have no idea how many hours they put in). They do try to make themselves available on fridays to answer questions or give quick input into problems we're having. Something like 5-15 minutes on an average Friday.
I, on the other hand, work a solid 5 day week. I do have a hard(ish) cap on my time at 8 hours every day however. I find that if I'm managing myself and my team properly that a 40 hour work week is plenty. Even at a boot-strapped startup like ours.