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On sleep

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Halina Bennet
Feb 26, 2026
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Sweet dreams (Photo by Catherine Falls Commercial)

If you could sleep two hours less than you currently do and experience the same energy effects, would you subtract those hours from the night or the morning?

Kai Williams just posed this question to me and a few of our co-workers, and my answer is a pretty immediate “morning.” I was pretty surprised to find that wasn…

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