Comments on: Being Productive With Severe Lack Of Sleep http://tinobox.com/wordpress/productivity/dealing-with-severe-lack-of-sleep/ Odds and ends of internet entrepreneurship—A Technical Diary Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:07:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Doolin http://tinobox.com/wordpress/productivity/dealing-with-severe-lack-of-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-1899 Dave Doolin Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:55:21 +0000 http://tinobox.com/wordpress/?p=3221#comment-1899 Coffee has been very very good to me! I haven't read any of the GTD material. I'm sure it's good. I should probably look into it more. Very interesting data you have collected there. Would you like to write a guest post here going into detail? I'd sure love to have it! As for suffering from lack of sleep, I can definitely relate. What I've done is more or less separated the "suffering" from the "lack of sleep." I'm able to keep my mood relatively stable and upbeat, even when I'm really tired. And that helps a lot! Good to hear from you again! Coffee has been very very good to me!

I haven’t read any of the GTD material. I’m sure it’s good. I should probably look into it more.

Very interesting data you have collected there. Would you like to write a guest post here going into detail? I’d sure love to have it!

As for suffering from lack of sleep, I can definitely relate. What I’ve done is more or less separated the “suffering” from the “lack of sleep.” I’m able to keep my mood relatively stable and upbeat, even when I’m really tired. And that helps a lot!

Good to hear from you again!

]]> By: Jean-Philippe Daigle http://tinobox.com/wordpress/productivity/dealing-with-severe-lack-of-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-1898 Jean-Philippe Daigle Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:17:46 +0000 http://tinobox.com/wordpress/?p=3221#comment-1898 Are you, perchance, a fan of the David Allen GTD method and its philosophical descendants? I take the whole GTD thing (or any methodology, really) with a grain of salt, but there are useful patterns in there; your sections about working under a time constraint and creating fine-grained task lists mesh very well with what he teaches. I've found myself suffering a lot from lack of sleep in recent years, which I think is caused by insomnia. Everyone will give you tidbits of advice on how to prevent insomnia, so like a good engineer, I started gathering data on myself. For 30 days, I logged at what times I woke up, fell asleep (best guess +/- 30min), drank coffee, went to the gym, etc. The result, with 30 days of data? None of it matters. I can drink no coffee at all for two days, or have two cups in one afternoon, and it makes no measurable difference to what time I manage to fall asleep. I can go to the gym, or not, and it makes no difference. I can go jogging or not, same deal. The only thing that actually has an impact is taking Diphenhydramine HCl (works brilliantly!), but I'm too afraid of developing a dependency on it to use it regularly. So I still have insomnia as bad as ever, but at least now I can drink coffee in the afternoon without fretting about whether it's a mistake. Are you, perchance, a fan of the David Allen GTD method and its philosophical descendants? I take the whole GTD thing (or any methodology, really) with a grain of salt, but there are useful patterns in there; your sections about working under a time constraint and creating fine-grained task lists mesh very well with what he teaches.

I’ve found myself suffering a lot from lack of sleep in recent years, which I think is caused by insomnia. Everyone will give you tidbits of advice on how to prevent insomnia, so like a good engineer, I started gathering data on myself.

For 30 days, I logged at what times I woke up, fell asleep (best guess +/- 30min), drank coffee, went to the gym, etc.

The result, with 30 days of data? None of it matters. I can drink no coffee at all for two days, or have two cups in one afternoon, and it makes no measurable difference to what time I manage to fall asleep. I can go to the gym, or not, and it makes no difference. I can go jogging or not, same deal. The only thing that actually has an impact is taking Diphenhydramine HCl (works brilliantly!), but I’m too afraid of developing a dependency on it to use it regularly.

So I still have insomnia as bad as ever, but at least now I can drink coffee in the afternoon without fretting about whether it’s a mistake.

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