My dad is a TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) doctor. He told me that every hour slept before 12AM count as 2 times as effective. I tried it out for a few month going to sleep around 8/9pm. I usually find myself waking up around 1am. super alert and energized for several hours where I will do a lot productive writing and creating till 5/6am. Then I'll sleep for 1 more hour. And for the rest of the day I'm totally energized with no afternoon dip. I do think our current sleeping patterns is a bit limiting.
Here is a TED talk that touch upon the subject as well:
I came into this one language concept in 2006. Back then there were already helma.org, which has functionality of RoR but it has being around since 1999.
Now Helma NG is relunched as RingoJS.org I would highly recommend checking it out.
Epistemological mastery just leave us knowing. A lot of time we know how to do something, but we just don't do it. Perhaps it is time to start ontological mastery http://ssrn.com/abstract=1392406
Very good post. It very much reminded me the leadership course I participated this summer (http://ssrn.com/abstract=1392406), in which they distinguished the difference between Transformative Learning and Informative Learning.
Informative learning adds to our current bucket of
knowledge.
Transformative learning examines the buckets themselves – our worldview and our various frames of reference relevant to this aspect or that aspect of what we are studying.
While both learning are valuable. Maybe our current education system focus too much on the latter. It might be good to have more Transformative Learning to facilitate shifting of Worldview and Frames of Reference in school.
As a programmer and someone who has started a small SaaS software business by myself. I can related to this comment. Programmer are the doers. They often pride themselves as the ones who are actually getting things done in an technology company.
This mentality often comes off to "those who manages or lead" as arrogant, and rightfully so. Often the doers don't see the bigger picture. For example, the relationships that is required to have individuals in an organization work together as a whole.
Here is a TED talk that touch upon the subject as well:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jessa_gamble_how_to_sleep.html