Blog 2: On Sleep
I'm generally interested in what makes us human, but also in what makes exceptional humans - how they lived, what they did that led them to make extraordinary impact. I am writing this blog entry in Frankfurt Airport, and I'm very tired so the subject matter is close to my heart. Like a lot of people today I probably don't get enough sleep, and I am certainly interested in how I can make the most of the sleep I do get. Over the past few years I have collected snippets of research on sleep and followed the thinking of specialists. I have experimented with various ideas and I feel ready to draw some conclusions. Of course, I am not a professor of sleep - none of what follows is proven in any rigorous way, but (in the fashion of the natural philosophers I admire so much) it has all been subjected to my own experiments. I hope you find it interesting, thought provoking and useful. In this first post on the subject I'll discuss the sleep cycle and napping. In the next pos