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I'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?
I 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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> 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.
...you’ve never had an all night argument with your partner?
I've been with my current SO for over 10 years (and married) and had a couple long term relationships before that.
We've had arguments like any other couple, but never an all night argument.
The big picture is trivially true -- if you don't sleep, you die. Where's your favorite language, now? Similarly if you don't eat -- yet few people would make a rant about "food quality matters more than languages". There's still a lot of nuance. What studies there are don't negate the existence of variability either. Well, then what's the point of bringing up the subject? Taken broadly sleep is important as life its…
Given that your big picture conveniently ignores stress it is not "trivially true" after all. :-P
I 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.
I’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?