Let me add my endorsement. I’ll also plug two books I have read on the subject. “Sleep Thieves” by Stanley Coren is the shorter of the two. “The Promise of Sleep” by William Dement is longer and goes into greater depth.
For those of you who don’t like some of the things that go in Washington, DC, let me inform you that extreme overwork and sleep deprivation are all too common in this area. Have some of you been critical of Mike Griffin, for example? At the Goddard Memorial Dinner last year he gave a speech and made a side comment about working 18 hours/day, 7 days per week. He would have been a much better NASA Administrator if he had cut that work time to 8 hours per day. I wrote a rather lengthy piece on my blog titled An Interesting Side Comment by Michael Griffin. When I pointed local aerospace people at my comment, people criticized me for writing such a thing. One man said my comment was more about me than Griffin. Hmm. I did put a good bit of my background in the comment. I did that to try to communicate to strangers that I have more knowledge on the topic of discussion than most human beings.
Let me add my endorsement. I’ll also plug two books I have read on the subject. “Sleep Thieves” by Stanley Coren is the shorter of the two. “The Promise of Sleep” by William Dement is longer and goes into greater depth.
For those of you who don’t like some of the things that go in Washington, DC, let me inform you that extreme overwork and sleep deprivation are all too common in this area. Have some of you been critical of Mike Griffin, for example? At the Goddard Memorial Dinner last year he gave a speech and made a side comment about working 18 hours/day, 7 days per week. He would have been a much better NASA Administrator if he had cut that work time to 8 hours per day. I wrote a rather lengthy piece on my blog titled An Interesting Side Comment by Michael Griffin. When I pointed local aerospace people at my comment, people criticized me for writing such a thing. One man said my comment was more about me than Griffin. Hmm. I did put a good bit of my background in the comment. I did that to try to communicate to strangers that I have more knowledge on the topic of discussion than most human beings.