Travis Swicegood

Polyphasic Sleep: Night 1

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June 09 2008
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Travis Swicegood

Despite dire warnings, I've decided to give polyphasic sleep a try. This week is pretty routine for me on the work front, so I think I can get away with it.

I have a simple reason for this experiment: curiosity. I can think of all sorts of things I would like to be able to do if time weren't an issue, and picking up an extra 40 hours week seems like a good trade off. In the end, I might not be able to keep it up just because of social strain it creates. Since I don't have an office to go in to or very many particular schedules to worry about keeping, it seems like I should be able to handle the social part of it though.

I'll be sure to blog about anything interesting I discover, and of course I'll be twittering about it. Now, maybe I can start making a dent in the ever-growing todo list that I have.

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Travis Swicegood is a professional programmer and owner of Domain51, a web development company with a focus on non-profits, NGOs, and online activists. He doesn't change the world, he supports those who do.

He has personal a focus on web applications, performance, and stability; is author of Pragmatic Version Control using Git; and working on his second book. He has been using PHP; since '99 and still remembers how revolutionary PHP 4 was, but can't remember why. He's a TDD, open-source, and open government advocate—sometimes called a zealot—and lurker on many an open-source project mailing list when not learning other programming; languages; for fun, exploring his surroundings on bike, or tasting his latest kitchen and home-brew creations.

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