Archive | Productivity

05 January 2010 ~ 2 Comments

The Fallacy of Working Smarter

Have you ever heard someone say “work smarter, not harder.” That sounds pretty good right? Seems to make sense, but as a statement it’s incredibly overrated.
Work smarter not harder is such a misleading phrase because it makes you think that you can get by on smarts alone and you don’t have to work. The [...]

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09 November 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Polyphasic Sleep Days 4 and 5

Friday was the first day I was able to significantly ratchet down my total sleep. I was under four hours for the day and feeling pretty good and that continued into Saturday.
Saturday
Saturday was the best day I’ve had so far with a total of seven 30 minute naps.
Saturday Sleep
3am-3:30am
7am-7:30am
9:30am-10am
11:10am-11:40am
3pm-3:30pm
7pm-7:30pm
11pm-11:30pm
Saturday Sleep Total 3h 30m
I added an [...]

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07 November 2009 ~ 7 Comments

Insomnia Induced Polyphasic Sleep Trial

This post details how I randomly started polyphasic sleeping. Polyphasic sleeping is sleeping at short intervals throughout the entire 24 hour day as opposed to sleeping all in one big chunk at night.
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Bold Parts Only: 2 Minutes
On Tuesday night I had a lot of trouble sleeping. I got into bed, and I [...]

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