Thanks a lot for the thorough post Emily! I like the framing of staying up late as a high-interest loan a lot. And I agree that reading Why We Sleep may indeed be quite useful for certain people, despite its shortcomings. You make a lot of good points and provide several interesting ideas, plus the post is written in a very readable way, and the drawings are great.
Not that much else to add, except two tiny nitpicks regarding your estimation:
you equated “being 30% less productive” with “taking 30% more time to complete things”, but actually being 30% less productive would mean you take 100⁄70 − 1 = ~42% longer. (a more obvious example of this would be that being 50% less productive means you require twice the time = 100% more, not 50% more)
concluding your estimation, your multiplication characters were interpreted as formatting, making the “0.254.9 + 0.502.1 + 0.10*0.4” part quite confusing to read. You could use × or • instead.
Thanks a lot for the thorough post Emily! I like the framing of staying up late as a high-interest loan a lot. And I agree that reading Why We Sleep may indeed be quite useful for certain people, despite its shortcomings. You make a lot of good points and provide several interesting ideas, plus the post is written in a very readable way, and the drawings are great.
Not that much else to add, except two tiny nitpicks regarding your estimation:
you equated “being 30% less productive” with “taking 30% more time to complete things”, but actually being 30% less productive would mean you take 100⁄70 − 1 = ~42% longer. (a more obvious example of this would be that being 50% less productive means you require twice the time = 100% more, not 50% more)
concluding your estimation, your multiplication characters were interpreted as formatting, making the “0.254.9 + 0.502.1 + 0.10*0.4” part quite confusing to read. You could use × or • instead.