This is what I get to see when I visit this website:
http://i.imgur.com/aQE2AVD.png
what a great experience.
Real Men Go to Sleep
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#172It 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 work at Google (in Mountain View) and all of the buildings I've worked in here have "nap pods" scattered around. They look kinda like dentist chairs, with a egg-shaped cone that comes down over your head and torso to shield you from noise and distraction. See:
http://www.geek.com/news/google-uses-high-tech-nap-pods-to-k...
The pods can be reserved on a public calendar, same as conference rooms. The ones in my previous building were booked pretty solid every day from 11am-3pm.
I tried one out once but didn't find it particular comfortable or conducive to sleep. But some folks swear by them.
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#173The culture of "napping = weakness / laziness" is still so prevalent in the US workforce. It's frustrating - because it's not logical, it's just pretty deeply ingrained. I set up a (rather nice) nap room at my company's office and I'm the only person who EVER uses it. It turned into a storage room. I sent articles about the virtues of napping - the studies - the benefits - the facts - to all of my employees, and nobo…
Back in the 90s I worked in a fast-food pizza joint. I washed dishes and also took delivery orders on the phone. Normally we'd stand up while taking the phone orders, but one time I sat down on a chair there and the manager berated me for it. As if it was somehow lazy to be sitting, even though it had absolutely no effect on how well I did that work.
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#174The culture of "napping = weakness / laziness" is still so prevalent in the US workforce. It's frustrating - because it's not logical, it's just pretty deeply ingrained. I set up a (rather nice) nap room at my company's office and I'm the only person who EVER uses it. It turned into a storage room. I sent articles about the virtues of napping - the studies - the benefits - the facts - to all of my employees, and nobo…
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're getting sufficient amounts of quality sleep at night, there is no reason why you should need 20-minute "power naps" in the middle of the day. (There may be exceptions, such as extremely demanding manual labor, but I think we're talking about white collar jobs in this context.)
For me that is normally true. However, I find that naps are also beneficial when I am doing something that is extremely demanding mentally. Of course, I would probably get the same benefit from just slacking of and browsing HN for a while.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
This lull disappeared for me after I stopped eating wheat. Not saying you'd get the same effect from quitting wheat. But there's decent odds it's something you eat.
Do you have Celiac disease, or did you just decide on your own that wheat is unclean?
Don't tell me you don't know that gluten, along with any form of sugar or anything else outside the paleo diet,, is not hacker-halal. You should be eating strict paleo or keto lest you die early, bloated and tumescent like that kid from Akira after he started mutating.
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Not for me. I can get 10 hours of sleep at night but I'll still hit an afternoon lull post-lunch. I'm sure if I really worked at it I could figure out why (too big a lunch? blood sugar spike?) but regardless, I'm good to go for 6+ more hours w/ a 20-minute nap. Meanwhile everyone else sits and forces their eyelids open, stares at YouTube videos, and downs espresso shots...
I turn into a zombie whenever I eat carbs during lunch. Try it and see - the next time you go out to lunch, don't eat pasta, bread, potatoes, corn, tortillas, dessert, coke. Have a steak and green veggies. I can eat an enormous 24oz prime rib plate and not suffer the zombie state that I would if I ate a hamburger and french fries.
Don't discount a burger without the bun, and a mostly greens salad... I'm not strictly paleo, but if I avoid going over 100g or so of carbs a day, I tend to do a lot better.
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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...
plus there is something about lying completely flat that is especially conducive to sleep, at least for me. I slept better in an overnight bus in China packed with bunk beds, than in most airplanes.
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That's biorhythm, it has nothing to do with food intake. You will have a tendency to fall asleep around 2 pm, more or less, everyday, based on your internal clock.
I hacked this with Vitamin D supplements.
How much do you take, and does it really work ? Any secondary effect?
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're getting sufficient amounts of quality sleep at night, there is no reason why you should need 20-minute "power naps" in the middle of the day. (There may be exceptions, such as extremely demanding manual labor, but I think we're talking about white collar jobs in this context.)
Not for me. I can get 10 hours of sleep at night but I'll still hit an afternoon lull post-lunch. I'm sure if I really worked at it I could figure out why (too big a lunch? blood sugar spike?) but regardless, I'm good to go for 6+ more hours w/ a 20-minute nap. Meanwhile everyone else sits and forces their eyelids open, stares at YouTube videos, and downs espresso shots...
Might want to have a sleep study done for sleep apnea. Quality of sleep != quantity of sleep.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for me. I can get 10 hours of sleep at night but I'll still hit an afternoon lull post-lunch. I'm sure if I really worked at it I could figure out why (too big a lunch? blood sugar spike?) but regardless, I'm good to go for 6+ more hours w/ a 20-minute nap. Meanwhile everyone else sits and forces their eyelids open, stares at YouTube videos, and downs espresso shots...
Might want to have a sleep study done for sleep apnea. Quality of sleep != quantity of sleep.
Tell me about it. Just found out I have sleep apnea. It explains a lot!
(Also means I urgently need to lose some weight.)