[This has been cross-posted to The Farm]
There’s just too much interesting stuff to do, and as a result I’ve
been over-caffeinating and under-sleeping. The end result is that
although I’m spending more time coding or learning some new
programming
tools and techniques (and with closures, Laszlo, Cocoa, all kinds of
ideas for Blogware and so on, there’s no shortage) as well as doing
some non-geeky reading, I’m actually getting less coding and learning
done.
I already knew that getting a good night’s sleep was essential to
being
productive, but it really hit me while reading the foreword to Aaron
Hillegass’ book, Cocoa Programming for Mac OS
X.
In it, he offers a bit of advice that I’ve never seen in any other
programming book: that getting eight hours’ sleep is important. He
goes
so far as to say that when learning something new and complex, one
should get ten hours’ sleep. He caps off the advice with a fact that
many of us know, but ignore:
sleep.
So that’s my plan for the next little while: to stop fighting the urge
to read “just one more chapter” or “just one more web site” or do
“just
one more thing” and get some proper shut-eye. I’ve been doing it for
the past couple of days and already feel a little sharper.
