Tag: Sleep

The first time I ever heard about coffee napping was way back when I launched the original design of the “caffeine: my drug of choice” t-shirt you may now recognize.  We sold it online in the earliest days of the internet. My colleagues and I used to talk about coffee...

We’ve all been there. It’s been a long, stressful, yet productive day, and you’ve worked yourself to the limit. For the last few hours of work, all you wanted was to go to bed, but you got the job done. Now, you’re finally home, you’ve eaten a great Bulletproof dinner,...

Do you know what type of bird you are? Most people don’t. They work the typical 9 to 5 without considering when they are most productive. As biohackers, that is not okay. We want to work smart and play hard with maximum results. A biohacker’s goal is to pinpoint times when...

How much sleep do you need? Most people think 8 hours of sleep per night is the magic number. But it’s not that simple. Not only do you have to consider the number of hours depending on your needs, but also the quality of your sleep. Plus, other factors affect...

Insomnia is a major problem for many high-performing type-A entrepreneurs. Some insomniacs can’t fall asleep, and some can’t stay asleep. Neither of those is a problem for me anymore (at least that I’m aware of; my Sleep Cycle app will verify if I’m waking up without knowing it). I used...

This is the third article in a series about how to hack your sleep so that you can fall sleep more easily, and recuperate more in less time while staying healthy based on my years of self-experimenting and research. Sleep hacking – getting more efficient sleep in less time –...