<story><title>Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle”</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/03/05/discovering-the-brains-nightly-rinse-cycle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisisnico</author><text>Our society is so focused on productivity that we forget that the foundation for improved productivity is sleep, exercise and diet. Mind &amp;amp; Body, one system.</text></item><item><author>tazedsoul</author><text>If I could pick one of the things to optimize all of society around, it would be sleep. I believe that many of society&amp;#x27;s ills can be traced back to people being sleep deprived on average. Modern society both ignorantly and through sheer foolishness undervalues sleep. I understand the emotional motivation for a statement like, &amp;quot;you can sleep when you&amp;#x27;re dead,&amp;quot; but I do despise this prevelant sentiment which has become a culutre.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjtindell</author><text>Personally being a tech worker in Silicon Valley, I’ve found the big barrier to this now to be cultural and personal. All my companies (large and small) have had incredibly relaxed policies around when to arrive, leave, remote work, time off, bereavement. Even in what have been SRE or Software Eng roles with on-call. I get the sense that if I’m doing my work, I could do whatever I want. But I still feel some pressure, some voice in the back of my head that thinks other people will look down on me or I won’t be deserving my high salary. Like anytime I have downtime I feel guilty, and I see others behave the same way.</text></comment>
<story><title>Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle”</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/03/05/discovering-the-brains-nightly-rinse-cycle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisisnico</author><text>Our society is so focused on productivity that we forget that the foundation for improved productivity is sleep, exercise and diet. Mind &amp;amp; Body, one system.</text></item><item><author>tazedsoul</author><text>If I could pick one of the things to optimize all of society around, it would be sleep. I believe that many of society&amp;#x27;s ills can be traced back to people being sleep deprived on average. Modern society both ignorantly and through sheer foolishness undervalues sleep. I understand the emotional motivation for a statement like, &amp;quot;you can sleep when you&amp;#x27;re dead,&amp;quot; but I do despise this prevelant sentiment which has become a culutre.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fortpoint</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s difficult for some managers to measure the productivity of knowledge workers and unfortunately they resort to tracking the number of hours there are &amp;quot;butts in seats&amp;quot;. If your organization is like this you&amp;#x27;ll see people who are at work to be seen being at work, even if they&amp;#x27;re not being productive.&lt;p&gt;Japanese salarymen are the pathological example of this but I&amp;#x27;m sure it manifests everywhere.</text></comment>