I often joke with my finance about how I’m 15 minutes away from a meeting when we’re getting ready for bed - as soon as I fall asleep I’ll wake up and need to get on my first meeting.
I feel like I often procrastinate going to bed, because I know I’m 15 minutes away from a meeting - but I can just push it further away by staying up longer.
The more I dread the next day, the more I procrastinate going to bed.
Does anyone else see time like this? My finance makes fun of me for having such a silly view on going to bed.
I’ve been re-learning this lesson for a good 25 or so years now.
Most of my friends now help me remember to end phone calls by midnight. HN and Wikipedia are less forgiving, but I'm learning to just leave the tabs open and get back to them the next day.
So the fear that tomorrow may be the day full of pain is keeping me awake from inevitable sleep.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Sleep
From the "Crticial reception" section:
Criticism surrounding the book involved concern about statistical errors in the book and the alarmism it generated in some readers.[27] A review from Alexey Guzey, an independent researcher, criticized the book in an essay entitled Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors.[28] The criticism was discussed on the BBC series More or Less.[29] Guzey's criticism was also discussed by Andrew Gelman, a statistician at Columbia University.[30] In a later post on Columbia's statistics blog, Gelman indicated that Walker's purported removal of a bar from a graph could be a "smoking gun," commenting that it entered "research misconduct" territory.[31] Walker posted his responses to these and other criticisms in 2019 on his own blog.
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Additional critiques are listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Walker_(scientist)#Why...
Not being a domain expert, I'd certainly want to see a handful of peer reviews for a book of this sort before subscribing to its conclusions. The fact that it's a best-seller and well-received by the mainstream press is largely irrelevant.