As a society, we’re becoming worse at going to bed.
Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t
Does our contemporary obsession with sleep obscure what makes it special in the first place?
Sleep as a Competitive Advantage
Too many of us live by the myth that one less hour of sleep gives us one more hour of productivity, Tony Schwartz writes in the Life@Work column. In reality, lost sleep not only leaves us more fatigued, but also takes a toll on our cognitive capacity.
How to Fall Asleep in 2 Minutes or Less | The Art of Manliness
With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past. This article was originally published in March 2018. Have you ever unexpectedly found yourself with a snatch of time in which to steal a […]
What’s something that helps you fall asleep fast?
45 votes, 239 comments. 60M subscribers in the AskReddit community. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.
What’s something that helps you fall asleep fast?
45 votes, 239 comments. 60M subscribers in the AskReddit community. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.
What’s something that helps you fall asleep fast?
45 votes, 239 comments. 60M subscribers in the AskReddit community. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.
What’s something that helps you fall asleep fast?
45 votes, 239 comments. 60M subscribers in the AskReddit community. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.
Methods to fall asleep quickly/instantly?
36 votes, 40 comments. Any tips on falling asleep INSTANTLY? For years I have been staying up until 1 AM (usually) and my body has adapted to it. Now…
What Did Ancient Humans Do at Night?
How to Fall Asleep in 120 Seconds
Trouble sleeping? Here's a military-tested trick for guaranteed slumber
I couldn’t sleep, then I tried cognitive shuffling | Psyche Notes to Self
The usual advice didn’t help my sleep problems, but then I tried an exercise that kickstarts the sleep-onset control system
Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor
Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark. Sure you get those extra hours right now to cover for your overly-optimistic estimation, but at what price? The shark will be back, and if you ca…
Sleep: Educational Impact and Habit Formation
In a field experiment among US university students, incentives for sleep increase both sleep and academic performance. Our primary intervention pairs bedtime reminders with morning feedback and immediate rewards for sleeping at least 7 hours on weeknights. The intervention raises the share of weeknights with 7+ hours of sleep by 26% and average sleep by 19 minutes during a 4-week treatment period, with posttreatment effects of 8 minutes. Immediate incentives outperform both delayed incentives and reminders/feedback alone during treatment but have no distinguishable impacts posttreatment. The primary intervention improves average semester course performance by 0.075–0.089 grade points, a 0.10–0.11 standard deviation increase. Our results demonstrate that incentives targeting sleep can be a cost-effective approach to improve educational outcomes.
The Mythical Agent-Month – Wes McKinney
Like a lot of people, I’ve found that AI is terrible for my sleep schedule. In the past I’d wake up briefly at 4 or 4:30 in the morning to have a sip of water or use the bathroom; now I have trouble going back to sleep. I could be doing things. Before I would get a solid 7-8 hours a night; now I’m lucky when I get 6. I’ve largely stopped fighting it: now when I’m rolling around restlessly in bed at 5:07am with ideas to feed my AI coding agents, I just get up and start my day.
How do you turn your brain off to sleep?
83 votes, 119 comments. All day long I feel like my head is empty and I'm not thinking about much. Or, maybe it's that I don't notice that I'm…
Parents Are Lying About Where Their Babies Sleep At Night. Here's Why That's A Problem.
The AAP comes down hard against bed-sharing, yet many parents still do it. Instead of lying to our pediatricians about it, we should be talking about how to make it safer.
