Good and bad sleep accumulate over days. Thus moment by moment measures of productivity are of limited use and any experiment has to compare extended periods of time, a week at the least, probably better a month. The very widely held consensus in the field is that you should go to sleep at the same time every night and wake up without an alarm. This should be the control for any experiment.
If only I had that option. :) If you know how to explain this to my 8 month olds, please do let me know. :)
I appreciate the info about the ideal there; I’m going to keep it in mind. But it’s simply not reasonable for me right now.
My focus and attention are much better late at night, so I tend to stay up as late as I can stand, to get more done. Unfortunately, with babies around, both when I wake up in the morning and when in the evening I can start focusing on the things I want to work on are entirely random. Hence wanting to get as much effective time out of the late night as I can, hence the original question.
Obviously, performance does degrade if one stays up long enough; I simply want to have something better than “I’m passing out in my chair” as a hint that I should give up and go to bed.
Good and bad sleep accumulate over days. Thus moment by moment measures of productivity are of limited use and any experiment has to compare extended periods of time, a week at the least, probably better a month. The very widely held consensus in the field is that you should go to sleep at the same time every night and wake up without an alarm. This should be the control for any experiment.
If only I had that option. :) If you know how to explain this to my 8 month olds, please do let me know. :)
I appreciate the info about the ideal there; I’m going to keep it in mind. But it’s simply not reasonable for me right now.
My focus and attention are much better late at night, so I tend to stay up as late as I can stand, to get more done. Unfortunately, with babies around, both when I wake up in the morning and when in the evening I can start focusing on the things I want to work on are entirely random. Hence wanting to get as much effective time out of the late night as I can, hence the original question.
Obviously, performance does degrade if one stays up long enough; I simply want to have something better than “I’m passing out in my chair” as a hint that I should give up and go to bed.
-Robin