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Real Men Go to Sleep

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Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by StandardFuture »

tehwalrus wrote: post #18
StandardFuture wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obviously, (as I am sure you are aware after careful consideration of my argument) my conclusions were towards the need for a better understanding of the subject itself and not towards "proving" a particular subjective viewpoint on the matter. I thought it fair though to offer up symmetrical counterpoints to the OP to show that this is all drawing global conclusions on a particular set of examples (or small sample si…

from the article: > An abundance of scientific findings, many from research sponsored by the military and NASA, has led many executives to abandon the quest to minimize sleep unreasonably. They aren't arguing entirely from anecdotes, they are using them to illustrate the point mostly. They are writing for a broad audience of non-scientists, which they've used as an excuse to exclude references from passages like the…

Ah, but we would need to know the parameters and conclusions of these studies to know if the author was utulizing the data and findings correctly or if he is using it in a biased manner.

Assuming, he references the generality of the studies appropriately (abandon the quest to minimize sleep unreasonably). Then the discussion should cater towards the differences between unreasonable sleep deprivation expectations brought on unwillingly and its toll on the mind vs. sleep deprivation willingly done due to a personal will to finish a project or continue a streak of creativity, etc.

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by mikegriff »

waterlion wrote: post #11

What? I just see a black screen with INVEST IN YOURSELF. I cannot understand the confusion of ideas that leads people to prevent visitors from reaching their content. I'm not going to click that ad, I'm not going to view your page so I'm not going to see the other ads on that page either.

That was my reaction as well. Clicked the back button straight away and went looking in the comments to find out what was said in the article.

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by ronaldx »

terabytest wrote: post #17
PhantomGremlin wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forget Adblock, just use NoScript. The article was perfectly viewable for me. Not trying to start a holy war, NoScript isn't a universal cure. There is plenty of content linked to from HN that requires JS. (However, I don't bother reading most of it!)

I think the consequences of using NoScript outweigh the benefits. I don't think I could stand 40% of the sites I use being unusable due to lack of JavaScript, that's not how it's meant to be.

Using Noscript, you can whitelist sites or unblock case-by-case.

Or, you can recognise that not functioning at all without JavaScript generally indicates a lack of interest in the user experience.

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by tehwalrus »

StandardFuture wrote: post #21
tehwalrus wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

from the article: > An abundance of scientific findings, many from research sponsored by the military and NASA, has led many executives to abandon the quest to minimize sleep unreasonably. They aren't arguing entirely from anecdotes, they are using them to illustrate the point mostly. They are writing for a broad audience of non-scientists, which they've used as an excuse to exclude references from passages like the…

Ah, but we would need to know the parameters and conclusions of these studies to know if the author was utulizing the data and findings correctly or if he is using it in a biased manner. Assuming, he references the generality of the studies appropriately (abandon the quest to minimize sleep unreasonably). Then the discussion should cater towards the differences between unreasonable sleep deprivation expectations brou…

If you want to know, raise some funding and do a meta-study. This was just an article to provoke thought among business-types (being in the Harvard Business Review) - If you want to find The Truth then you can, the universe is right there in front of you to measure.

(I'm only half joking - if you put a proposal for a meta-study about this research up on Kickstarter, I will back it.)

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by mathattack »

x0054 wrote: post #3

While studying for the bar, I used to take 2 hour 'naps' in the middle of the day. My schedule was 4 hours on, some food and nap, 4 hours on. Probably most productive 3 months of my life. I got to say, those siesta embracing countries might be on to something.

I agree. A weekend nap is a beautiful thing. Couldn't pull it off at work. Sometimes I cheat by having coffee just before. Then I wake up 20 mins later with the dual benefit of sleep plus caffeine kicking in.

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by agilebyte »

mathattack wrote: post #26
x0054 wrote: post #3

While studying for the bar, I used to take 2 hour 'naps' in the middle of the day. My schedule was 4 hours on, some food and nap, 4 hours on. Probably most productive 3 months of my life. I got to say, those siesta embracing countries might be on to something.

I agree. A weekend nap is a beautiful thing. Couldn't pull it off at work. Sometimes I cheat by having coffee just before. Then I wake up 20 mins later with the dual benefit of sleep plus caffeine kicking in.

This kind of a pillow wouldn't work? :)

http://designyoutrust.com/productdesign/power-nap-office-pil...

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by bellabell »

[deleted] wrote: post #29

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Sometimes I worry how men standing up for women act on how much they think women are offended, rather than how much women are actually offended. You're blowing this way out of proportion.
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