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Energy & Recovery

Sleep is upstream of almost everything

What the evidence supports, what it doesn't, and where the popular discourse has run ahead of the science

The case for treating sleep as a foundational lever is one of the strongest signals in physiology. The case for tracking your REM percentages on a wrist device is considerably weaker. The distinction matters.

#sleep #recovery #circadian #flow #neuroscience #hrv #caffeine #light

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Flow & Focus

Flow isn't what you think it is

The state the literature describes, and the one the marketing sells

Csikszentmihalyi's original research describes a psychological state with reasonable scientific support. The popular literature has converted that descriptive finding into a prescriptive performance hack. The distance between the two matters.

#flow #deep-work #neuroscience #evidence

By Mick

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