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Lit/twit review request: at what exchange rate do siesta naps (20-30m at hour 7-8) reduce night sleep requirements? i.e. If you take a nap to improve afternoon concentration, do you "pay" with more total time slept? Or is it "free" if you can arrange your schedule accordingly?

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Andy Matuschak

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· Jun 4, 2021

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Andy Matuschak

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Following up three months later: I've been doing ~daily 20-30m naps at waking hour 7-8, and my natural overnight sleep requirement doesn't seem to have changed (I sleep until I wake naturally without alarm). So sleep's eating more net time, but I do have more energy in afternoon.

11:25 PM · Sep 15, 2021Twitter Web App

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How do you fall asleep for a nap at the same time everyday? Never been able to force myself to nap.

Geoff Langenderfer

@geoff_l

Sep 15, 2021

how about set an 20min alarm when you feel sleepy

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This is my experience too. I find naps to be well worth it!

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I used to take 30 minute naps under map desk (1999-2004) for lunch and found that worked a treat. If I didn’t have a nap, then my mind would often wonder in the afternoon and I’d end up spodding on the internet (looking at programming things but still not “working”)

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It's not just the extra pm energy it is the doubling of acuity when formerly I would be just a commute zombie. Further I have less "weekends" and thus more productive days. Indeed I have sharper senses too

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Totally read that as twenty to thirty naps a day and was just 🤯. Now I want to get a NYT article about a valley founder micronapping and kicking ass