[HN Gopher] Blog posts, sorted by sleep
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Blog posts, sorted by sleep
Author : breck
Score : 126 points
Date : 2024-04-07 13:32 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| ssgodderidge wrote:
| Fascinating. I would love to see my breakdown of bugs-per-commit,
| or words-spoken-in-meetings, compared to sleep to see if there
| any correlations. Anecdotally, sleep seems to be the number one
| factor that influences my productivity. More so than diet,
| exercise, or even mental health.
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| > Anecdotally, sleep seems to be the number one factor that
| influences my productivity. More so than diet, exercise, or
| even mental health.
|
| These are far from independent variables though.
| tiagod wrote:
| I have chronic insomnia that got worse every year. Eventually I
| stopped being able to sleep without being absolutely exhausted,
| usually after 35h or more awake hours. Almost drove me crazy.
| Paranoia, auditory and visual hallucinations, extreme touch
| sensitivity, you name it.
|
| Lucky, modern medicine pretty much saved my life. (trazodone,
| which was combined with mirtazapine a few years later.)
|
| I later was diagnosed with ADHD, and after medication I find it
| a bit easier to sleep (although I still need the other to have
| consistent sleep). Biggest problem was my brain just wouldn't
| shut up (and got noiser and noiser the longer I was awake.)
| ramijames wrote:
| It took me a long time to get there, but I finally accepted
| that when I am tired, I shouldn't work. I should rest. The
| quality of the work that I do when tired is abysmal, and
| usually requires that it be redone anyway.
| pawelduda wrote:
| I remember when played a lot of DotA 2, trying to climb the
| ranks. < 6.5 hours of sleep == significantly more bad plays I
| wouldn't have made otherwise: forgetting about some important
| aspect, mistiming an action or reacting too slow. It was a
| level where I was often matched with competitive players and
| one mistake often changed the result of the game. In hindsight,
| I would've been better off just stopping for the day the moment
| I noticed my performance is garbage, but well, the game was
| addictive. It was almost always a bad decision to keep playing,
| but again, I was prone to making bad decisions on such days.
| mft_ wrote:
| > I think continued progress in the wearable sensor field...
|
| I'm interested in people's general experience with _wearable
| sensors_ - of whichever type. I wear a Fitbit (mostly for sleep
| tracking) but it 's mostly a curiosity rather than something that
| offers meaningful, actionable insights.
|
| And I'm experimenting with deliberately tracking my metrics less
| in other areas. As a cyclist, it's easy to get sucked into the
| metrics world, with easy access to HR and power, training plans,
| and sharing your performances online... but I found I wasn't
| enjoying the activity of cycling very much. A friend hypothesised
| that the inherent comparison and competition might be to blame,
| and suggested to try removing most of the data tracking; it's
| early days yet though.
|
| > ...is the best bet for improving human health.
|
| I'd posit that avoidance of behaviours which are well-known to
| cause dierct harm to one's health is probably a better place to
| start.
| tandav wrote:
| It's annoying that there's no easy way to export data from the
| Apple Watch. The only option is to export complete data from the
| Apple Health app, which results in a large ZIP file. This file
| takes about 10 minutes of preprocessing before the whole archive
| becomes available. It would be much better if I could export only
| the new records, like those from the last day.
| spaceywilly wrote:
| Sounds like a good idea for an app. I believe all that data is
| available through HealthKit. ChatGPT it up :)
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| I believe most of us sleep fewer than 3 times per day, so
| writing down times and doing a few subtractions and a little
| data entry once a week should be under 1 min/day to have
| everything digitised. (that said, https://xkcd.com/1205/
| suggests it'd be worth spending up to 21 hours to fully
| automate)
| gcr wrote:
| It's not quite what you're asking for, but you can retrieve
| heath records using a Shortcut. I'm not sure if detailed sleep
| data is retrievable this way, but you at least can get times to
| bed, times woken up, etc.
| CharlesW wrote:
| You might find this helpful: "Share your health and fitness
| data in XML format",
| https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-your-health-dat...
| stephenbez wrote:
| I use health auto export and it works pretty well.
|
| https://www.healthexportapp.com/
| CoffeeOnWrite wrote:
| Sigh, missed opportunity to use sleep sort to do the ordering.
| https://web.archive.org/web/20151231221001/http://bl0ckeduse...
| Liftyee wrote:
| Could someone clarify what the writer means by "locked-in" when
| describing the writing?
| quenix wrote:
| A state of flow and intense focus.
| 8n4vidtmkvmk wrote:
| Sounds like "in the zone"
| sdwr wrote:
| I take it to mean that his viewpoint is pre-decided and
| unchangeable.
|
| Weird phrasing though, I've only heard it in a positive
| context.
| elric wrote:
| That seems like a really wide range of sleep time. 4.3-10.8
| hours. I can't image either of those extremes being good for you?
|
| The only times I ever sleep that little, or that much, is after a
| lot of heavy drinking.
| jzb wrote:
| Congrats? I can't remember the last time I slept 10+ hours.
| Probably once in the last few years when I was exceptionally
| sick.
|
| My range would be more like 3-7.5 hours, with (thankfully) few
| nights in the 3-hour range. 4.5 is not uncommon, as I am a
| light sleeper and once I wake up due to temperature, noise, or
| whatever, I rarely manage to get back to sleep. Fork in the
| disposal.
| nicbou wrote:
| Could it be because of a correlation between sleep hours and time
| off? I'd be more likely to write on a Sunday, and I'd also be
| more likely to sleep late on a Sunday.
| neilv wrote:
| I have some (imperfect) sense of how sharp I am at some time, or
| am likely going to be in the near future, which influences when I
| tackle tasks.
|
| Algorithm that must be correct? It's not going to be working
| through that first thing in the morning, nor squeeze it into the
| 30-minute gap between 2 meetings. And hopefully it doesn't have
| to be done on that day I didn't sleep well, because I can tell
| I'm not at my best.
|
| When something that needs hard thinking must be done right then,
| I can do it (and probably still better than most people, if it's
| something I'm good at). But I often have the feeling that I'd be
| thinking of more possibilities, or not making "careless"
| oversights, were I not fatigued or distracted.
|
| Occasionally, I've pulled off some of my most meticulous work
| despite being fatigued. But it felt like more exertion than it
| should, and presumably I wasn't spotting all the opportunities
| that I would've under better conditions.
|
| That said, as someone who doesn't blog, I don't much filter my
| more casual, off-the-cuff Internet posts by sleep/sharpness.
| Actually, Internet posts are more likely to be a morning warm-up,
| or a break between tasks. Maybe, if Internet posts paid better,
| I'd start optimizing sharpness for them.
| deathanatos wrote:
| https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/work-hour-training-for-nurses/long...
|
| Sleep deprivation is basically a form of impairment, but it gets
| a "this is fine" pass from society in most cases1. I think anyone
| who has done SRE knows this: I'm an idiot if I'm up at 4a trying
| to debug something, and the risk of dumb errors is pretty high.
|
| ... what kills me is when people schedule stuff to be done ...
| basically, while impaired. I work in healthtech, and
| (considerably ironically, given the article above also coming
| from healthcare...) providers will schedule migrations at 1 to
| 4am in the morning. SWE is difficult enough as it is, but you
| want me to think about IPSec and CGNAT at 1am?
|
| The bad reason given across the industry is always "we can't do
| it during the day, because that's when users are using the
| system!" Your processes are broken, then, if you have so little
| faith in your ability to deploy new stuff. (And it _is_ possible;
| my company, in healthtech, used to regularly do mid-day
| deployments, because we had processed in place such that a failed
| deployment would usually get caught. The ones that didn 't, well,
| deploying them at 1am wouldn't have made it better. In fact, we
| had at least one PM from an outage where that it went out _after-
| hours_ made the outage worse.)
|
| Rimworld (the video game) has an interesting system where pawns
| have a "consciousness" value; normally is 100%, but things can
| lower it, e.g., drinking, drugs, brain injuries. A pawn with a
| lower consciousness value is simply worse at everything. And
| there are days, and times -- e.g., when I'm sleep deprived after
| a long night of battling prod -- that yeah, I am definitely
| operating at like 60% consciousness. Everything suffers as a
| result.
|
| > _but [where I] was generating a similar amount of tokens,_
|
| > _I can say, "hey, might be interesting ideas here, but don't
| train too heavily on this"._
|
| ... good grief, just no. I for one do not "generate tokens" nor
| do I "train" on blog posts. Language like that devalues the
| abilities of a mind.
|
| 1there are a few spots, like truck drivers, where society starts
| to care.
| modeless wrote:
| I want to see a graph of page views vs sleep.
| Dibby053 wrote:
| I think rather than less sleep causing worse blog posts, both
| having a common cause is a more likely explanation. For instance
| stress, or spending too much time writing careless blogposts
| instead of sleeping :P
| foobarbecue wrote:
| Yeah... also this person writes about some pretty intense
| psychological trouble. Seems like their manic episodes are one
| cause of both poor sleep and aggressive writing.
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