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Idea – Tesla, with caffeine-naps.

16-Feb-10

Caffeine’s generally a bad idea in a long-term polyphasic pattern. You’d build a tolerance to it, and have to start taking more, and it starts to make napping difficult. But what if you’re not looking for a pattern that’s sustainable indefinitely?
Scenario: you have a month in which to do an amount of work which isn’t [...]

And we have a name

23-Jul-09

A friend of mine has recently switched from Dymaxion to the pattern I’m following. Now that I know of more than one success story with this pattern, I thought I’d better name it.
So I give you the Tesla pattern. Because a) Tesla’s awesome and b) Tesla’s one of the few people known to sleep [...]