Comments on: The myth of short sleepers http://overstated.net/2008/01/18/the-myth-of-short-sleepers a weblog by cameron marlow Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:28:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: jon soroko http://overstated.net/2008/01/18/the-myth-of-short-sleepers/comment-page-1#comment-42036 jon soroko Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:53:55 +0000 http://overstated.net/2008/01/18/the-myth-of-short-sleepers#comment-42036 (I'm so relieved my arithmetic skills are still adequate to the spam-traps). Well said. I've begun to think of the lack of sleep as another permutation of the redistribution of assets upwards. The harder and longer people people have to work to make ends meet, the less time they have available to rest. But if you've got enough power - you can sleep or nap when you want to (viz. certain elected officials who nap regularly) but no one knows - so those people are also free to CLAIM that they get by on three - 5 hours. (I’m so relieved my arithmetic skills are still adequate to the spam-traps).

Well said. I’ve begun to think of the lack of sleep as another permutation of the redistribution of assets upwards. The harder and longer people people have to work to make ends meet, the less time they have available to rest.

But if you’ve got enough power – you can sleep or nap when you want to (viz. certain elected officials who nap regularly) but no one knows – so those people are also free to CLAIM that they get by on three – 5 hours.

]]> By: P West http://overstated.net/2008/01/18/the-myth-of-short-sleepers/comment-page-1#comment-41330 P West Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:43:24 +0000 http://overstated.net/2008/01/18/the-myth-of-short-sleepers#comment-41330 It's a long way off from junior year AP's and Friday sheets. Insomnia was a given you used to say. It’s a long way off from junior year AP’s and Friday sheets. Insomnia was a given you used to say.

]]> By: rick http://overstated.net/2008/01/18/the-myth-of-short-sleepers/comment-page-1#comment-40940 rick Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:22:26 +0000 http://overstated.net/2008/01/18/the-myth-of-short-sleepers#comment-40940 You know, it's funny. That article's totally dead on, but the real tragedy is that sleeping less makes these people LESS productive. Once a week or so, someone goes "god, how do you do so much with your time?" and I say the same thing every time: "it's no secret. I get enough sleep and I sleep in. That's it." You know, it’s funny. That article’s totally dead on, but the real tragedy is that sleeping less makes these people LESS productive. Once a week or so, someone goes “god, how do you do so much with your time?” and I say the same thing every time: “it’s no secret. I get enough sleep and I sleep in. That’s it.”

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