Sleep Rituals: My Shutdown Protocol You are lying in bed. You are tired. But the brain is still running — replaying the meeting, holding tomorrow’s decision, calculating something that does not need to be calculated right now. That is not a sleep problem. That is a closure problem. Sleep does not begin when I get…
What 2 Years of Sleep Tracking Taught Me About Mood and Energy For two years, I rated my sleep, energy level, and subjective sense of happiness every day on a 10-point scale. It may not be the strangest thing in my spreadsheets, but it is definitely one of the most useful. In this article, I’m sharing those accumulated data…
Why Entrepreneurs Sleep Worse We entrepreneurs often sleep worse not simply because we work more, but because we carry a different kind of load. It is not only about working hours. It is about uncertainty, responsibility, financial exposure, emotional involvement, and too many unresolved decisions that do not end when the workday ends. Work may…
Sleep, Negotiation, and Leadership: Why Sleep Loss Damages Decision Quality Sleep quality directly affects an entrepreneur’s ability to negotiate, make decisions, and control emotions. Sleep deprivation reduces activity in the prefrontal cortex — the part of the brain responsible for strategic thinking and self-control — while increasing amygdala reactivity, which is tied to emotional responses…
Digital Cortisol: My Phone Cutoff for Better Sleep After 40 Digital cortisol is my working term for a specific evening state: when the phone keeps your mind in attention, urgency, and response mode at the exact time it should be slowing down. I’m not talking about cortisol on a lab test. I’m talking about the…