28 Hour Day
My version of the 28 hour day is split up into 4 blocks per 28 hours: 10 awake, 4 asleep, 10 awake, 4 asleep. This works better than the traditional 20 awake, 8 asleep split for two reasons:
1. Sleeping in 8 hour blocks, at odd times for the rest of the people in your life, ends up conflicting too much with social life.
2. Staying awake for 20 hours without sleep, on a regular basis, is insane. It’s hard enough to stay awake for 16 hours straight every day (the standard system).
Given that my current sleep schedule gives me between 6 and 7 hours of sleep per night (about 45 hours per week), I hypothesize a great improvement of personal and work efficacy. This map is setup currently at a random start time but the whole calendar could be shifted an hour ahead or a full day, which I will probably do to tweak it for better schedule matching. This is experimental. After doing this for a while, I may adjust the hours.
Below, you can see the difference between the two calendar layouts (a single 8 hour sleep session vs. two 4 hour sleep sessions):
