longevity

Trading in twilight: sleep deprivation makes you a worse investor

“We test whether mental alertness, as proxied by sleep disruption, impairs investor trading performance. Using four complementary approaches, we document that retail investors who experience a later sunset time on average earn lower abnormal returns on their trades.”

https://www.nber.org/papers/w33477

I did my postdoc research on sleep and discovered new genetic variants for sleep duration and timing (when you want to wake up and go to bed)

the one sleep advice I have is don’t try to change what your natural rhythm is to meet some weird Saratoga water ideal—if you work best late then just wake up late

neuroscience phd, DeSci advocate, Buddhist chaplain. co-host of the /okbanger show and vibe imagineer for /christin. https://reframescience.xyz

doing what feels “natural” is the deceptively hard thing under societal pressure 

I’m here to support natural rhythms and way of unmasked being

Ngl I’ve tried so hard to shift my wake up earlier to no avail. I’ve learned to just accept it for now