nap enhancer

I always said beer was a brain food.

Beer makes me snooze in the afternoon; an afternoon nap makes one more productive; ergo, beer makes me more productive.

I'll drink to that.

I'm most productive..

..when I'm asleep.

Beer is brain food

I agree that beer makes you more productive. However, it also makes you more intelligent by killing the weaker brain cells. We all know that alcohol kills brain cells but much like a lion tracking a herd of wildebeest across the plains it will go for the stragglers, the weak, the ones who can't keep up with the rest. By killing these weaker brain cells first it makes the "herd" stronger, making me more intelligent.

This is plainly evident when I've had several beers in quick succession and become an expert on everything and am compelled to tell everyone so. Loudly.

Siesta

There's a scientific reason for it.

How much time ?

The big question is:

How long has the nap to be to become productive ... without spendig the whole afternoon snoring ?

Between 5 and 10minutes, or 10' to 30', or between 30' and 1 hour ?

Sleeping minds want to know ...Viva la Siesta !

If I slept

at my desk, I'd find a P45 next to me when I woke up

Zzz

At last I have a use for those "progress" meetings the boss schedules just after lunch.

"What? Well yes I probably was, but I was only boosting my productivity."

Metaphors and koans

The "inbox" simile seems an awkard updating of the old zen "teacup" story, where you cannot add tea to the cup until you have drained it.

A more appropriate comparison would be, thanks to Tom Lehrer, that the brain "is like a sewer --- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it". But some brains are more like sewers than others.

Hmmmm sleep

I fell asleep during a meeting once (probably because it had no IT angle). My boss had assigned me to that commission, but I had no idea what I was doing there. Voices of people discussing vague ideas and minor details, just fading into the background. Hmmmm sleep.

The weirdest thing though, when they woke me up I was laughed at by ~20 people or so. And I didn't care. I wasn't at all ashamed, like you'd expect. And I wasn't kicked out of the commission either, my boss wasn't notified. Nothing. It seems sleeping during a commission meeting is considered only a minor loss of decorum, no worse than spilling coffee. Heh

Siesta a good idea? That's new...

Half the planet has accepted the benefit of a brief midday siesta fro as long as anyone can remember - we didn't need 'boffins' to state the bleedin' obvious.

I'm retired now, but for 40 years my lunchtime habit - often to the scorn of colleagues - was a very light snack lunch and half an hour with my feet up. On my own time of course - in my day sleeping on the job would have you outside the building, cards in hand, before you'd woken up. That half hour's doze (rarely full sleep) was almost like a drug - on the few days I missed it, I just wasn't the same man.

That said, I've worked for quite a few bosses in my life whose only purpose seemed to be to promote drowsiness in their subordinates - one of the few things which more recent 'management science' generations seem even more effective at than their forebears.

It was

12.15 I posted

And I was on my lunch break, since el reg is safe for work so long as I stay away from the playmobile recreations

<<just got in at 00.30