Why We Sleep

One year ago today, I started the audiobook version of "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker as we drove from Florida to New Jersey. I highly recommend the book, but in retrospect, it was probably not a good idea to listen to a book about sleep during a LONG car ride.

My main takeaway from the book was OMG, nobody in my family was getting enough sleep and we need to fix that. Walker is a professor at UC Berkeley and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science. According to Walker's research, adequate sleep (recommended average of 8 hours of nightly sleep for adults) offers a multitude of health benefits, such as protection from cancer and dementia, wards off colds and the flu, and improves our ability to learn and be more creative. Sheesh. Sign me up.

I enjoyed the book very much and highly recommend it for learning about the current research on sleep. Summary: Not enough sleep = bad. Consistent sleep night after night = good. You're welcome.

Bonus tips to making sleep a priority in your life / schedule: the book has an Appendix that offers twelve tips for healthy sleep that comes from this NIH Medline Plus magazine (see page 20 for the tips, and the sleep feature starts on page 16 of the magazine). You're double welcome.

1 + 1 = 3

What does this even mean? 

Your math is bad.

I'm not reading any further.

Today's blog title is to express that sometimes, collaboration between two people (1 + 1) can result in something more than a simple sum of the parts (2). By talking, bouncing ideas off each other (without judgment), and wondering what if, team collaboration can result in transformative ideas (3)! Believe the answer is in the room.

Hello, World

This is my first blog post, reminiscent of my first (and last) programming class (eek! Fortran) and the first software code I wrote that printed the words “Hello, World” on the computer screen. We’ll see if this works!

As I mark the half-century milestone, my goal for this website is to share thoughts, musings, and information that hopefully, may be of use to the next generation. Please stay tuned.

Also, a huge thank you to Nicole C. for her encouragement to start.