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Couple of mundane (non-data-based) suggestions plus a weird one. Ask your wife about your behavior. (Although this could open up a can of worms (or emotional whuppass) especially since she's probably twice as tired as you are. Just be regular in your self-awareness. Check in on yourself more frequently. Awareness can access data you could never formalize. Memorize something that's intricate enough to not to become au…
There was a great comment/post on lesswrong.com a while back on this but my phone isn't up to to the site. Do a test or a suite of tests on a daily basis that test intelligence/problem solving skills/reaction time and track your results. Offline, Sudoku, crosswords, other newspaper things but I'm guessing they're pretty noisy. IIRC the mensa.dk website has quite a good test. Dual n back seems likely to give fast and…
Keep notebooks/journals. Sleep isn't an exact science, so don't expect an exact answer. Some people can live on 6 hours of sleep and be fully alert. Some people need 9. Personally, I fluctuate. I keep notebooks on subjects I'm learning and use journals to reflect on my overall progress. This self-assessment helps me to not only retain what I learn, but to give me a pulse on my progress: am I in a slow month or am I o…
I think there are a couple things to consider. Our son was born while I was working at a startup. In my opinion, for the first few months, I was definitely functioning with less sleep than ever before. The regular 8 became a broken 6, just as you say, but I felt fresh in the mornings and didn't nod off during the afternoon. Basically, I felt "normal." I don't know if it's adrenaline or some other biological phenomeno…
The first bit is weird though huh? I wonder if it has been properly studied? I know there are studies on the hormones in the mother and her ability to cope on small amounts of sleep. Is there anything similar for guys?
Keep notebooks/journals. Sleep isn't an exact science, so don't expect an exact answer. Some people can live on 6 hours of sleep and be fully alert. Some people need 9. Personally, I fluctuate. I keep notebooks on subjects I'm learning and use journals to reflect on my overall progress. This self-assessment helps me to not only retain what I learn, but to give me a pulse on my progress: am I in a slow month or am I o…
I think there are a couple things to consider. Our son was born while I was working at a startup. In my opinion, for the first few months, I was definitely functioning with less sleep than ever before. The regular 8 became a broken 6, just as you say, but I felt fresh in the mornings and didn't nod off during the afternoon. Basically, I felt "normal." I don't know if it's adrenaline or some other biological phenomeno…
Thanks. I'll watch out for that. It sounds a lot like what I've experienced to date and the drop off you describe is post of what I'm worried about. The first bit is weird though huh? I wonder if it has been properly studied? I know there are studies on the hormones in the mother and her ability to cope on small amounts of sleep. Is there anything similar for guys?
Things change with children, but the human brain was trained for that situation for long time.
Just use some simple memory tests, now I think they could be very good indicators of performance. Under extreme stress I begun forgetting things, for eg. short term memory for numbers was almost completely gone.
Some non-direct measurements are just daily behaviour; do you lose your temper easier or do you just try get isolated.
Been there, done that. I would rather pay attention on just mental health and daily physical exercise than mental performance, things will normalize within a year anyway when the kid grows up and sleeps more steadily.