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Episode AI notes 1. The paper 'Awakening is Not a Metaphor' explores the effects of meditation on the sleep-wake system and found a non-linear relationship between meditation and sleep quality. 2. Meditating for less than half an hour per day can improve sleep quality, while meditating more than that can increase wakefulness and insomnia. 3. Meditation is unlikely to cause insomnia overall. 4. The relationship between meditation and sleep quality is non-monotonic and non-linear.

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The Tim Ferriss Show

reverse Parkinson’s Law. Work not only expands to fill the time allotted to it, but also contracts to fit within the time allotted to it.

The Way We're Working Isn't Working

Tony Schwartz and Jean Gomes

For example, it is much more common that we overestimate our knowledge than we underestimate it. Similarly, the danger of losing something stimulates us much more than the prospect of making a similar gain. In the presence of other people we tend to adjust our behavior to theirs, not the opposite. Anecdotes make us overlook the statistical distribution (base rate) behind it, not the other way round.

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli

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