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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 MartinCron »

adamb_ wrote: post #78
wcarss wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got the feeling that it depended on your social status within the team. If you were seen to be a producer and got shit done, then sure whatever, take a nap -- just keep it up. And pretty much everyone I met was someone who got shit done, but a lot of people who get shit done won't let themselves take a nap at work. Even if it's good for them. Some people still took naps, and I get the sense that the others felt nap…

Perhaps the naps empowered their get-shit-done mindset, which in turn allowed to be seen as a "producer"

Or it could be a very grand gesture of confidence in their status.

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by outworlder »

wil421 wrote: post #60
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 usually feel groggy after naps and it would be hard for me to go back to studying or working.

Your nap is probably too long. Either that, or you are sleep deprived, thus getting into deep sleep much faster.

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by chaosphere2112 »

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.

I actually had two separate full screen ads when I tried to visit this page on my phone.

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by zacinbusiness »

vetler wrote: post #55
zacinbusiness wrote: post #50

My schedule is really weird. Because I work in America for a company in Scandinavia there is a pretty wide time difference. When I first started they asked if I could be "at work" around 8 or 9 my time, which is very reasonable considering that is 2 or 3 their time. I often volunteer to wake up early when there's something important that's going to happen, and I often work late into the night if I'm trying to get som…

What kind of work do you do?

I do what is best described as marketing automation. For instance setting up campaigns that will send personalized content messages to client customers (think the offers that you receive from a company such a Bestbuy). So there's a lot of planning and testing involved before the campaigns are executed.

Then there's other things like designing some business processes and, occasionally, editing some HTML here and there.

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by programminggeek »

nicolethenerd wrote: post #58
spuz wrote: post #39

It was my understanding that while Google has nap rooms in some offices, they are seldom used. The culture is geared around long hours and if you are seen to be napping that is seen as a potential sign of weakness. Of course I could be completely wrong (I'm just pulling this idea out of a vague memory of reading about it here on HN) so I hope a Google employee will correct me. However, it seems reasonable that a comp…

I interned at Google's Mountain View HQ in 2009 - I don't remember there being an actual nap room, they just had a few nap pods (like this http://www.hammacher.com/Product/12199 ) scattered around the office.

Wow, um, I think a simple cot would suffice and would be about $15,950 cheaper... http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-2000009891-ComfortSmart-Foldin...

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by vanderZwan »

wil421 wrote: post #60
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 usually feel groggy after naps and it would be hard for me to go back to studying or working.

It's not the nap that makes you groggy, it's at what point your sleep cycle you wake up - you want to wake up at the end of one, but before the next one kicks in. It takes a bit of practice to figure out what yours is. If this is very hard it probably means you're sleep deprived in general (then again, living a Western lifestyle makes it likely you're sleep deprived by default).

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by snarfy »

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.

view source -> delete spammy node

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by josefresco »

I take my sleep advice from infamous hip hop artist Nas - "I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death"

In reality I sleep 8+ hours and laugh at those who "boast" at how little sleep, or how many hours they work at the expense of other valuable things in their life (family, socializing etc.)

Also, a lot of these comments are about the mid-afternoon/post lunch nap. Honestly I'd prefer to get home to my family a bit earlier, than take a mid day siesta and have to come home later in the evening.

Getting up early and clocking out early are especially tempting given how little daylight we have (Northeast US) this time of year.

Re: Real Men Go to Sleep

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Post by [deleted] »

drcube wrote: post #68
terabytest wrote: post #17

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If the site doesn't work, you can enable scripts one by one until it does. Usually you just have to allow scripts from the domain you're visiting, and you can prevent most abuses that use third party scripts that way. Occasionally you'll run across a site that has scripts from 30-odd domains, and after enabling a few, it still doesn't work. Those sites aren't worth visiting. But NoScript gives you the degree of contr…

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