As far as I can tell, some of us have ancestors who spent thousands of years above the Arctic circle, where the sun doesn't even go down every day anyway.
And there never were any other primates, or trees either.
In a lab based on extreme experimentation, there is no substitute for perseverance until a breakthrough is
achieved.
Even if you don't start out trying to emulate Edison, you end up that way.
In chemical research you don't just turn off the terminal when it gets dark outside and call it a day.
I never thought it was the least bit unusual that every grad student's lab had a cot near the desk. You really aren't going to get anything monumental done if you go home from work every single day.
What happens if you have a 36-hour experiment that must be carried to completion, or a client's chemical tanker at the dock for a brief 36-hour stay where they are loading or discharging products that no one else can handle either?
You wait a whole month for your ship to come in, what are you going to do, be too tired to finish the job?
What hurts your productivity more is the chemical toxicity much more than sleep irregularity.
In the industrial chemical world, there is more effort to avoid exposure the more toxic a material is, so it ends up being those things which are intentionally ingested that compromise performance.
Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and drugs are going to make you much more tired than you would be without them.
And there never were any other primates, or trees either.
In a lab based on extreme experimentation, there is no substitute for perseverance until a breakthrough is achieved. Even if you don't start out trying to emulate Edison, you end up that way.
In chemical research you don't just turn off the terminal when it gets dark outside and call it a day.
I never thought it was the least bit unusual that every grad student's lab had a cot near the desk. You really aren't going to get anything monumental done if you go home from work every single day.
What happens if you have a 36-hour experiment that must be carried to completion, or a client's chemical tanker at the dock for a brief 36-hour stay where they are loading or discharging products that no one else can handle either?
You wait a whole month for your ship to come in, what are you going to do, be too tired to finish the job?
What hurts your productivity more is the chemical toxicity much more than sleep irregularity. In the industrial chemical world, there is more effort to avoid exposure the more toxic a material is, so it ends up being those things which are intentionally ingested that compromise performance.
Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and drugs are going to make you much more tired than you would be without them.
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