Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep
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Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep
#2I really need that :).
Too tired to read and apply them now, too insomniac to sleep.
Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep
#3Does anyone have a download link to this?
I would greatly prefer to read this on my Nook instead, but it seems you can't download from Scribd without a subscription..
Thanks
Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep
#4Does anyone have a download link to this? I would greatly prefer to read this on my Nook instead, but it seems you can't download from Scribd without a subscription.. Thanks
Use bugmenot. ;) http://www.bugmenot.com/view/scribd.com
Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep
#5Does anyone have a download link to this? I would greatly prefer to read this on my Nook instead, but it seems you can't download from Scribd without a subscription.. Thanks
Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep
#6Nothing worked until I started exercising. Quality of sleep greatly improved.
Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep
#7One tip I don't see there is using supplments to aid sleep; I started taking zinc just before bedtime and found it helps me get to sleep better and feel more refreshed in the morning.
I take it as "ZMA", which is a blend of zinc/magnesium/vitamin B designed to help rest & recovery from physical activity, but the same sleep benefit comes from regular zinc tablets from the chemist.
Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep
#8It would be interesting to read but I have to say it's just too infuriating what that Scribd crap does to the web. They ruin a perfectly good way of displaying documents just so they can "solve" the problem they created themselves.
That's just ridiculous and I will never ever again click on or upvote anything that has a scribd URL. Scribd truely shows the ugliest face of the ad funded web. It's innovation turned on its head. Ruin something just to extract some money from "fixing" it in a horrible way. It's pathetic and it's an intellectual disgrace.
Re: Sleep Hacks: The Geek's Guide to Optimizing Sleep
#9I haven't read the whole guide yet but on page 8 it mentions polyphasic sleep (with annotation that majority of people who try it fail). Isn't polyphasic considered a popular hoax? As far as I remember, mentioned in the presentation dr Wozniak actually believes it simply doesn't work. Also, I've read a few blogs of people who tried it and failed (some of them appeared on HN) and don't recall a single person that succeeded. Taking that into consideration it makes me feel sceptical towards this guide. Sure - some sleep patterns work for certain people and don't for other, but why include something that seems to work for noone?
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#10page 6 presents the old idea that people have a roughly 25 hour day cycle.
This is proven false[1], early experiments did not consider room lights. And the fun thing is just a paragraph later the author itself points out that artificial light messes up the sleep cycle.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm#Enforced_longe...