Tag: sleep

The Economics and Importance of Sleep

I just listened to a part 1 of a Freakonomics Podcast episode called “The Economics of Sleep” and I found it pretty fascinating. The episode talked about how sleep, or lack thereof, can possibly be the cause of the health and income gaps between whites and blacks. Very interesting stuff. That got me thinking about how […]

Mike Chan on Mar 28, 2016 0

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Can you be more productive on less sleep? My first week experimenting with biphasic sleep

This past week I started experimenting with a biphasic sleep model, an alternative schedule where your sleep is broken up into multiple segments throughout the day. Here’s why I started exploring this sleep method and how it’s going. Why I’m doing this Most of us follow a monophasic sleep pattern, which consists of one long chunk […]

Mike Chan on Jul 27, 2015 2