August 3, 2011 0

Polyphasic sleep – Aborted after 1 week

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Strangely enough, adaptation was going really well. It was much easier than the first time, but all the same, I ran into a few minor problems, and one major one. First, the minor problems: Minor problems during adaptation Temperature regulation One thing that I forgot from the previous adaptation was the fact that my bodies [...]

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July 23, 2011 1

My polyphasic sleep pattern – aka scientific guessing

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First, a bit of history. I switched to polyphasic sleep at the beginning of the year and kept it up for about 4 months or so. I started out with the everyman 3 hour sleep pattern which basically means you sleep for 3 hours at night and have about 4 extra 20 minute naps spaced [...]

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July 23, 2011 0

Time for polyphasic sleep again

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I’ve decided that it’s time to live up to the tagline on this blog and go back to polyphasic sleep again. For the unenlightened, Polyphasic sleep is a different sleep cycle where you sleep for several short periods over the course of 24 hours, not just in one big chunk during the night. There’s several [...]

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July 22, 2011 0

If you do a job, do it properly

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I know that there are a lot of incompetent people in the world, and I know I shouldn’t let it upset me, but I just can’t help it. PS: You might want to skip this blog post, it really is just random ranting. I’ll probably delete the post once I stop feeling the need to [...]

July 20, 2011 1

Job satisfaction – Do you care enough?

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I saw an interesting blog post which speaks about making your staff unpoachable, and it got me thinking about job satisfaction. Essentially, making your staff unpoachable can be boiled down to this: 1. Pay them reasonably well 2. Make sure that they enjoy their job more than they would a new one That’s it – [...]