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“Not sleeping enough, which for a portion of the population is a voluntary choice, significantly modifies your gene transcriptome—that is, the very essence of you, or at least you as defined biologically by your DNA. Neglect sleep, and you are deciding to perform a genetic engineering manipulation on yourself each night, tampering with the nucleic alphabet that spells out your daily health story.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“if tech wants to be seen as special—and therefore able to operate outside the rules—then it helps to position the people working inside tech companies as special too. And the best way to ensure that happens is to build a monoculture, where insiders bond over a shared belief in their own brilliance. That’s also why you see so many ridiculous job titles floating around Silicon Valley and places like it: “rock-star” designers, “ninja” JavaScript developers, user-experience “unicorns” (yes, these are all real). Fantastical labels like these reinforce the idea that tech and design are magical:”
― Sara Wachter-Boettcher, Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

“Insufficient sleep robs most nations of more than 2 percent of their GDP—amounting to the entire cost of each country’s military.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“Having tests are good. Having tests for the sake of writing
tests just to use a specific testing tool is useless.”
― Chris Hartjes, The Grumpy Programmer's PHPUnit Cookbook