Doctorow on emails
Cory Doctorow, coeditor of the Boing Boing blog, recently wrote a really good essay on asynchronous communications.
With several million pieces of archived email -- and hundreds of non-spam messages arriving daily -- you'd think that I was kind of guy who'd carry an email-based mobile phone, a crackberry or Treo or iPhone or what-have-you. You'd think that I ran some kind of IM in the background, and picked up the phone a dozen times a day to chat.
You'd be wrong.
I'm a polyphasic sleeper; I'm writing this at 2AM as I wake up from my first evening sleep cycle. Asynchronous communication is the only thing that works for me. Perhaps it's the other way around: thanks to emails, I can enjoy taking naps all over the day.
How's the polyphasic sleep working out for you? I'd absolutely love a blog post about that.
Some questions I'd have: How long have you been doing it? How much sleep did you require normally per night to be fully rested? Compared to how much do you get now on average per week? Do you feel fully rested, without difficulty remembering things and reasoning at normal rates?
Everyone always says they're going to try polyphasic sleep but I've never met anyone who has actually done it for an extended period, so I'd love a writeup of your experience! :-)
Greetings Shazow,
I'm not on the uberman schedule so there is not much to brag about but I'll post a little summary of what I do soon.