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The Twenty Four Hour Society: Understanding Human Limits in a World
Today's sophisticated technology and integrated global economy have led to great advances but have failed to consider human limitations. The Chernobyl explosion, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, Three Mile Island, and tens of thousands of smaller accidents, as well as billions of dollars of productivity losses, were the result of human fatigue. Dr. Moore-Ede brings together the latest scientific findings and presents an array of management tools and technologies that monitor alertness and performance impairment. He shows how to rethink work schedules, manage information flow and improve working environments. 230 pages
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First published February 1, 1993
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January 13, 2015
As someone who's been programming since 8, I thought this book was fascinating in that it revealed a lot of what is going on in our machine-centric society. I found a reference to this book inspired by a sidebar in the book The Power of Full Engagement - I am experiencing first hand a disjoint in my relationship to time and the world and how I manage my energy.
I particularly like how he backs up everything he says with research. Though to be fair, this could easily be the employee manual for his Institute of Circadian Physiology, the organization he founded. This is not necessarily a bad thing as it's nice to hear what kinds of solutions work and don't work (so it's not all theory) but at the same time, because the book was written in 1993, the book sounds a bit dated and just leaves you curious what has been developed over the past 20 years.
The book states case studies from a nice breadth of industries: aviation, medicine, energy, transportation (trucking), and even executive management - all people who either have direct accountability for a large # of people (think: airline pilot who needs to stay alert on the job) or indirectly through executive decisions.
I think my key takeaway from this book is where he makes the point that our society in all its accelerating and automation, has lost track of our sense of the "temporal dimension" of our lives: "in previous eras the inefficiencies of communication allowed time for adequate thought & contemplation"
This really makes me feel grateful for recently transitioning from unified communications spaces like email and Facebook to ones that are highly contextual (like books here on Goodreads) - there is a pace to communications (ideally between book readings) - you bring something new back to the table.
This is what life was like in the ole days - so our job is to figure out how to bring this back without feeling like you're jumping all over the internet all the time. there is a simplicity to how email works (or a single news feed) but it doesn't mean we should process *all* the information we receive *all* the time.
This book is a big call for bringing attention back to ourselves and ensuring we are in our optimal states when working towards our dreams- because truth of the matter, *everything* we do is mission critical if we are truly living our purpose each and every moment!
food for thought :)
I particularly like how he backs up everything he says with research. Though to be fair, this could easily be the employee manual for his Institute of Circadian Physiology, the organization he founded. This is not necessarily a bad thing as it's nice to hear what kinds of solutions work and don't work (so it's not all theory) but at the same time, because the book was written in 1993, the book sounds a bit dated and just leaves you curious what has been developed over the past 20 years.
The book states case studies from a nice breadth of industries: aviation, medicine, energy, transportation (trucking), and even executive management - all people who either have direct accountability for a large # of people (think: airline pilot who needs to stay alert on the job) or indirectly through executive decisions.
I think my key takeaway from this book is where he makes the point that our society in all its accelerating and automation, has lost track of our sense of the "temporal dimension" of our lives: "in previous eras the inefficiencies of communication allowed time for adequate thought & contemplation"
This really makes me feel grateful for recently transitioning from unified communications spaces like email and Facebook to ones that are highly contextual (like books here on Goodreads) - there is a pace to communications (ideally between book readings) - you bring something new back to the table.
This is what life was like in the ole days - so our job is to figure out how to bring this back without feeling like you're jumping all over the internet all the time. there is a simplicity to how email works (or a single news feed) but it doesn't mean we should process *all* the information we receive *all* the time.
This book is a big call for bringing attention back to ourselves and ensuring we are in our optimal states when working towards our dreams- because truth of the matter, *everything* we do is mission critical if we are truly living our purpose each and every moment!
food for thought :)
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