My favorite talk on Sleep by William Dement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hAw1z8GdE8 September 23, 2008 Google Tech Talk
Very entertaining.
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#42The book ‘Why we Sleep’ has a lot of the detail on how sleep (or the lack of) impacts you.
Surprisingly, the Joe Rogan interview covers most of the book and is pretty funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig If you have a long commute, I can recommend it.
Great episode! The part about memory centers sort of reminds me of GANs. Discriminate during day, generate during night.
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Google has nap pods? Wow...that remindsof mats they used to have for us in preschool. Sheesh.
Stigmatizing naps is so boneheaded, petty and backwards that I'm surprised to see anyone on this site so casually write something like this. Literally read anything on the subject, please? https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/napping
Read deeper into the post, Im not stigmatizing naps. Im big on sleep. Love it so much & think it's fundamental to physical and mental health. Its so important that if you need it at a place of employment, maybe that place of employment needs to do a better job of load-balancing.
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#44I had chronic insomnia for several years. But then I’ve stopped coding right before sleeping at least 1-3 hours in advance and now I can finally sleep. Who would’ve thought.
I am just finding that out now. I read something that it could be due to the blue light from LED screens, TVs, phones, etc. I hope to end my insomnia too.
Blue light before bed has been clearly shown to affect circadian rhythms and sleep. Some references here to get you started:
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#45I've felt this for a while, been actively monitoring my sleep for over a year and try to hit at average 7.5hr of sleep nightly. (This is what I found works best for me). I've found it helps with my mood, and my stress and also productivity. I've also found that it is possible to have the same effect of not enough sleep, by getting too much sleep.
Do you find any variance in the 7.5 hour 'sweet spot' with the seasons (assuming you have them) or with your activities?
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#46I think this is true for the most part, although poor development practices can eventually catch up to you (I once worked in a place with 5000 programmers working on the same thing and whose productivity averaged 1 line of code per day -- it can happen.. :-P ). However, while many people will rightly complain about stress in the workplace and long hours coding, I'd like to also point out that stress and lack of sleep…
> being in a bad relationship and arguing with my SO all night until it was time to go to work
If that ever happened to me I'd seriously consider my life choices in the romantic department.
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#47I’ve been wondering about this WRT the 969 policy at companies in China. Why did they not immediately see a drop in productivity when implemented? Is China’s software industry making itself less competitive by not letting its workers sleep enough?
I've never heard of this 969 policy. What is it?
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#48I sleep well since i use Clojure
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#49I sleep well since i use Clojure
This is gold.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google has nap pods? Wow...that remindsof mats they used to have for us in preschool. Sheesh.
Stigmatizing naps is so boneheaded, petty and backwards that I'm surprised to see anyone on this site so casually write something like this. Literally read anything on the subject, please? https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/napping
Looks like Mr. Grump here could benefit from a nap!