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Sleep is good

Ze talks about how to study… 

When I was in college, I tried a variety of techniques and I must agree that stress is the biggest killer for being productive and effective in anything. 

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A new way to multiply

Found this on the 37 Signals blog. Seems easy to do and it might help keep you from making mistakes, but it might be a bit confusing to kids just learning to multiply. I usually take notes on graph paper, so I’ll have to keep this in mind next time I need to do a quick calculation.

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Bust that cycle

Hmm… I already tried getting up earlier and all that got me was more hours at work.

Maybe I’ll go for a walk after lunch.

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Polyphasic Sleep

I’ve read several people’s experiences with it and it seems like it might be a “gotta try it” thing as everyone is different.

My current sleep patterns are all over the place.  I get between 2 and 9 hours of sleep.  On the weekend, my wife and I often take a ~2 hour nap on one day in afternoon when our daughter takes hers.  I have the occasional marathon at work where I put in a 16+ hour day and I usually use lots of caffene and sugar to stay awake. Read the rest of this entry »